[Tux4kids-tuxtype-scm] bug in tuxtype

David Bruce dbruce at tampabay.rr.com
Wed Nov 21 21:36:46 UTC 2007


Hi Holger,

> > TuxType looks at the keyboard.lst file in each theme to determine what
> > characters can be typed, and throws out any words that contain characters
> > that are not on the list.  The file has a very simple format for each
> > line:
> >
> > [0-9]|char
> >
> > where the digit is the recommended finger for that character, followed by
> > '|', followed by the character itself.  Each line in the file is for one
> > character.
>
> And 0 means left little finger, 1 the left ring finger, 4 the left thumb, 5
> the right thumb and so on?
>
> Really?

That's how TuxType has identified fingers since sometime before I got involved 
in the project - the more recent format just has a single character for each 
line rather than two.

TuxType only makes limited use of the 'finger' info so far.
>
>
> regards,
> 	Holger



-- 
David Bruce



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