Re: [bug-gtypist] Converting legacy double spaces convention to modern single space after sentence (patch)

[Chris Jones]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 01:52:36PM EDT, Michał Parkoła wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using GNU Typist to finally learn proper touch typing with all fingers
> as opposed to the organic method I've grown into over the years.
> 
> I like the simplicity and availability of gtypist on almost any
> terminal-enabled device, but I am not a fan of learning the legacy double
> space method, so I've tweaked the course files to remove it.
> 
> Attached is a patch converting double spaces to single spaces (along with
> the instructions, where relevant).
> 
> If you agree with this change I will also go through the other lessons.
> 
> Michał

1. Regarding Felix Natter's "static approach", check out this link:

   https://github.com/inaimathi/gtypist-single-space

2. As to the dynamic/on-the-fly approach, it is already implemented
   among other things via gtypist's -w flag. 

From the changelog in /usr/share/doc/gtypist/changelog.gz (debian
stable):

| Version 2.2a:
|   - Added word processing like behaviour to the exercises, so that
|     multiple spaces combine into one, return moves to the next
|     paragraph, space is accepted at the end of a line, and hyphens
|     at a line's end are skipped.

[...]

Run "gtypist -w" from the shell prompt if you want to give it a try.

CJ