Re: [bug-gtypist] GTypist beginner mode

[Felix Natter]

Tim Marston <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Felix,

hello Tim,

> On 10/02/12 21:31, Felix Natter wrote:
>>>> Hmm, it's a very important thing: you don't want to learn typing on
>>>> a (by default!) tiny terminal window! How about saying:
>>>> "If you want to know how to resize the gtypist window, please look at 
>>>> the manual in section XXX."?
>>>
>>> Yeah, ok. I'm not against adding this to the getting started message,
>>> but I just couldn't think of a nice, concise way of writing it that
>>> would apply to all operating systems and terminal emulators!
>> 
>> How about a node in the manual which presents a mapping between OS Types
>> and resize instructions? I think UNIX/Linux | Mac OS X |
>> Windows-default-terminal should be enough for a start.
>
> Yes, that sounds great. (Do we currently support OS X, by the way!?)

We don't provide binaries (as you might know ;-), but there is at least
one way to compile things oneself ("macports").

http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=gtypist

=> it's good that you mentioned it because gtypist in macports is
outdated (2.8.x): I will contact the maintainer.

>> What is left to be done for 2.10 is more or less just the transition to
>> GNU gengetopt and adding/integrating the "--beginner" option, right?
>
> OK, I've updated the TODO file (and structured it for emacs
> todoo-mode).

Being an emacs user, great!

> On a side note, one point in the TODO list caught my eye: do you really
> want to work on multi-byte support other than UTF-8 for 2.10? It just
> doesn't seem like a high priority!  :o)

No, not at all. I think I thought you wanted that. I'll remove it when I
update the manual with the resize infos.

Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter