plover2CAT

Contents

  • Getting Started
  • How To ___
    • Perform common CAT functions
      • Write only to end of document
      • Write even when window is not in focus
      • Merge paragraphs
      • Split a paragraph
      • Add automatic paragraph affixes
      • Retroactive Define for selection in editor
      • Scan for last untranslated and add outline to dictionary/delete
      • Define and insert a user field
      • Insert index entries
      • Navigate to paper tape and back
      • Generate dictionary suggestions from transcript
      • Use Steno Search
        • Usage
        • Ordering of results
      • Import RTF/CRE transcript file
      • Enable autocompletion and add terms
      • Translate tape files
      • Set up and display captions
      • Set up Text-to-Speech
    • Configure the editor
    • Do common editing tasks
    • Play and Record Media files
    • Set and modify styles for paragraphs
    • Manage transcript dictionaries
    • Set and modify page layout properties
  • Reference
  • Development
  • Build and bundle docs
  • Code
plover2CAT
  • How To ___
  • Use Steno Search
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Use Steno Search

Steno Search will try to find valid steno outlines in the dictionaries based on a user-specified outline.

Steno Search does not refer to finding steno in the underlying transcript. See find/replace on how to do that.

See also

For searching for text within the transcript, see How to find and replace text. For searching for misspellings within the transcript, see How to do spellcheck. For lookup up a dictionary definition for a word/phrase, see Definition Lookup. For querying various online sources on a word/phrase, see Online Lookup.

Usage

  1. Activate the Steno Search pane in the toolbox.

  2. Input the outline in the outline box.

  3. Click the search button

Plover2CAT will display translations from the dictionaries with outlines similar to the one being searched. These translations are ordered in descending likelihood.

Ordering of results

Result outlines include those that have a deletion, a replacement or an insertion of a key. For example, EUPB will have a search for EUP, EUPG, or EUPBL.

Result outlines are limited by edit distance. Outlines with multiple strokes will allow for one edit per stroke. In other words, EUP is one edit away from EUPB and will be included, but not EU. But for an outline such as EUPB/TPHER, EUP/TPER will be included.

Results are ordered by what kinds of edits are more common. For example, deletions of keys on the ring and pinky fingers are ranked higher than keys pressed by other fingers. Replacements/inserted are ranked higher if the key replaced/inserted is adjacent. In other words, EUPBG would be ranked higher than *EUPB.

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