![]() There's an obvious analogy to music there, and you could use that to make your typing flow more akin to playing music, in order to both prevent this from negatively affecting your piano playing and to maximize the likelihood of this actually helping with the RSI. Stenographers do that to make it easier to flow from a preceding word to the next depending on hand position. Note that A starts multiple entries, and also note that how you translate a C stroke depends on whether you've previously seen an A, a B, or you're starting fresh.Īlso note that (although not shown in the very small sample above), there may be multiple ways to "play" the same word or phrase, rather than just one. (Those letters aren't meant to be musical notes, just abstract markers.) ![]() For instance (and I won't use real steno here, just placeholders), there may be these entries: A = alpha Frequently, there will be several entries with the same starting stroke which are differentiated by their length and by the subsequent strokes. The dictionary will have entries where the stenographic part ("steno", for short) is one stroke long, or multiple strokes long. Although they'll be heavily influenced by the school at which they studied, each stenographer will have their own "dictionary" of what strokes they use to mean what, a dictionary they will continuously hone over the course of their working lives. ![]() Like syllables, sometimes one stroke (chord) has meaning all on its own, other times it only has meaning combined with following strokes. Strokes frequently (but not always) correspond to a syllable of spoken language. They call this a "stroke" of the keyboard it's like playing a chord on the piano. In machine stenography, the stenographer writes by pressing multiple keys on the stenotype machine at the same time, then releasing them all. Update: More about the "dictionary" of chords to keystrokes:īasically, the dictionary is a trie (thanks, that we search with longest-prefix matching. (I'm a big fan of Java, but the interfaces that operating systems use to talk to device drivers tend to be more easily consumed via C and similar.) That may well be sufficient for your purposes - it's where I'd start, because the device driver route is going to be awkward and you'd probably have to use a different language for it than Java. Windows has an interface for doing that (probably several, the one I'm thinking of is SendInput but I know there's some "journal" interface that does something similar), and I'm sure other operating systems do as well. However, since you're just generating keystrokes (not trying to intercept them, which I was trying to do years ago), you may be able to use whatever features the operating system has for sending artificial keystrokes. For Windows and Linux, you're probably going to want to use C for that. ![]() This is a plug-in to the operating system that serves as a source for keyboard events, talking to the underlying hardware (in your case, the piano keyboard). To be most broadly-compatible with software, you'd have to write this as a keyboard device driver.
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