Re: [bug-gtypist] request

[Felix Natter]

Mike Nagie <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear GNU Typist developers,

hello Mike,

> I would like to thank you what you have done. I tried to learn touch 
> typing once or twice several years ago, but I failed. Now, thanks to 
> your great software, I did learn, and I can use the whole keyboard 
> without any peek.

This is great to hear! I also learned touch typing with GTypist :-)

> I'd like to ask you is there any way to insert own text without creating 
> a new lesson? I'd like to practice with some longer texts. 
> Like : gtypist own.txt  and it would open the text in a speed test
> mode.

Currently this is not directly supported. Usually (see
/usr/bin/typefortune [1], which generates speed tests based on fortune
cookies) we generate .typ files like these using a small script.
Example output:

# temporary file created by typefortune
K:12:END
B:            Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
I:fortune 1/1
S:The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with
 :commoner things.  It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of 
God
 :over all the fruits of the earth.  When one has tasted it, he knows what the
 :angels eat.  It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it 
because
 :she repented.
B:                         Practice complete
T:
 :
 :
 : Congratulations: you successfully completed the 1 fortune lessons !
*:END
X:

Of course you only need the S: part, and you can also do this manually:
foo.txt:
bla bla blub
=>
foo.typ:
S:bla bla blub
=>
gtypist foo.typ

Writing a script should be easy (but you might need to take care of word
wrapping and split the text in S: stanzas if it exceeds ~22 lines). Can
you do that in your favorite (scripting) language?  (if not then I'll
code it for you on the weekend - please provide sample .txt files)

[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gtypist.git;a=blob;f=typefortune;h=e295bc3783af5a2534e364d62dc2a65fad9cad06;hb=HEAD

Cheers and Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter