Menu

The menu bar in Plover2CAT resides at the top of the page, and each menu section has a drop-down menu of items or sub-menus of items.

Descriptions

italics represent sub-menus

The File menu

This menu contains items related to transcript file management, import and export.

• New: Creates a timestamped folder named transcript-YYYY-MM-DDTHHMMSS and sets up the editor for writing.

• Open…: Load a previously created transcript-YYYY-MM-DDTHHMMSS by Plover2CAT by selecting the *.config file in the project folder.

• Recent Files: sub-menu containing recently loaded transcripts.

• Import RTF/CRE: Import a RTF/CRE transcript file from other CAT software. See Supported RTF/CRE features for details.

• Save: Saves the transcript data.

• Save Transcript Data at …: Save the transcript JSON in another location.

• Export As: This submenu lists the different export formats available for export. For details of each file type, see export formats

• Open Transcript Folder: Open the folder where the transcript is located using the file explorer.

• Close: Close the transcript.

• Quit: Quit Plover2CAT.

The Edit Menu

• Undo: Undo previous action.

• Redo: Redo undone action if available.

• Copy: Copy text (and underlying steno) from paragraph.

• Cut: Cut text (and underlying steno) from paragraph.

• Clipboard: Last 5 snippets from cut/copy

• Paste: Paste text (and underlying steno) into paragraph.

• Normal Copy: Copy the text only for use in other applications.

• Normal Paste: Paste into editor from system clipboard.

• Jump to Paragraph…: Activates a dialog window to select a paragraph to nagivate to.

• Reset Paragraph: Removes all paragraph text and steno data from paragraph. Used as the last option when text and steno data go out of sync.

• Autosave: Enable autosave to backup file at defined time intervals

• Set Autosave Time: Set time intervals for autosave

• Revert Transcript: Revert transcript to previously saved version

The Steno Actions Menu

This menu is for steno-related menu items.

• Merge Paragraphs: Merge two paragraphs by selecting across two paragraphs, or place cursor in second of paragraphs to merge.

• Split Paragraphs: Split paragraph by placing cursor at position to split.

• Autocompletion: Toggle to enable autocompletion in editor. Requires a wordlist.json in a sources/ dictionary.

• Add Autocompletion Term: Activates dialog to add candidate text and steno for autocompletion.

• Retroactive Define: Set new translation for strokes under selected text, replaces all occurrences of text.

• Define Last Untrans: Define last preceding untranslate before cursor.

• Delete Last Untrans: Find last preceding untranslate, if exists, and delete.

• Lock Cursor at End: If checked, the cursor will be placed at end during writing, and all text is “appended” to end of document.

• Capture All Steno Input: If checked, all writing through Plover will be tracked, and text emitted into editor, regardless of whether editor window is in focus. By default, no writing to editor when window is not in focus.

• Translate Tape: Activates file dialog selector for tapes files to translate using the present dictionary stack in Plover.

The Insert Menu

• Image: Activates a file selector to select image to insert

• Normal Text: Activates a dialog window to insert normal text

• Insert Field: sub-menu for defined fields to insert

• Index Entry: sub-menu for quick insert of index entries

• Text From File: select text file to import contents

• Edit Fields: Activates dialog to create and edit field variables

• Edit Indices: Activates dialog to create and manage indexes and index entries

The Media Menu

This menu contains items related to media files.

• Open Media: Open a file dialog to select a media file.

• Play/Pause: Play and pause the audio depending on the present state.

• Stop: Stop the audio, returning to the beginning.

• Skip Forward: Skip the audio forward by 5 seconds.

• Skip Back: Skip the audio back by 5 seconds.

• Speed Up: Increase the playback rate by 0.02.

• Slow Down: Decrease the playback rate by 0.02.

• Sync Media Position: move media position to recorded position based on cursor position

• Show/Hide Video: If a video file is selected to be played, then a video window will pop-up. This will show/hide the video window.

• Record/Pause: Start recording using the settings in the audio recording box. If already recording, pressing this will pause recording, which is not the same as to press Stop Recording.

• Stop Recording: Stop any recording in progress. If Record/Pause is pressed again, the present audio file is overwritten.

• Captioning: Setup caption display and remote sending

• Flush Caption: Flush text in buffer to captions

• Play (TTS): Start synthesizing text to speech audio

• Stop (TTS): Stop playing text to speech audio

The Styling Menu

• Select Style File: Select the JSON/ODT file containing desired styles to use

• Create New Style: Create a new style based on the currently selected style. User will input new style name.

• Generate Style File From Template: Generate a JSON style file from an ODF or RTF file.

• Refresh Editor: Update the visual styling foreach paragraph if not already done.

• Automatic Paragraph Affixes: Toggle to enable adding prefix and suffix strings to paragraphs based on style

• Edit Paragraph Affixes: Activates dialog to set prefix/suffix strings for paragraph styles

The Dictionary Menu

This menu is for transcript dictionary management.

• Add Custom Dict: Add a custom dictionary to the transcript. See transcript dictionaries for details.

• Remove Transcript Dictionary: Removes a loaded transcript dictionary. This will remove both from the Plover instance and the configuration file, but not delete the actual file.

• Transcript Suggestions: analyze a transcript for common words and phrases to add to dictionary

The Tools Menu

• Styling: Show Styling pane if hidden.

• Page Format: Show Page Format pane if hidden.

• Find/Replace Pane: Show Find and Replace pane if hidden.

• Paragraph: Show Paragraph pane if hidden.

• Spellcheck: Show Spellcheck pane if hidden.

• Steno Search: Show Steno Search pane if hidden.

• Text to Speech: Show Text to Speech pane if hidden.

• Online Search: open browser with selected text to search for various services.

The Preferences Menu

This menu contains items related to window layout, views, and shortcuts

• Show All Characters: Toggle to view whitespace charactes (spaces with dots, tabs with left arrows, paragraph endings with pilcrow symbol)

• Window Font: Set the font and size for the window. This is saved when exiting and will be maintained across sessions.

• Background Color: Set background color.

• Paper Tape Font: Set the font and size for the paper tape. This is savd when exiting and will be maintained across sessions.

• Docks: Submenu with items to toggle the visibility of each dock. A user can also right click on the toolbar and toggle dock visibility that way.

• Edit Menu Shortcuts: Activates dialog for setting key shortcuts for available menu items

• Opaqueness: Set opaqueness of entire window (0 (fully transparent) - 100 (fully opaque))

• Stay on Top: Keep window on top

The Help Menu

This menu contains help:

• About: Dialog displaying name and version number.

• User Manual: Opens bundled user manual

• Acknowledgements

• View Plover Log: Show most recent messages from Plover log

• Run Tests: Run unit tests

Identifiers

This section documents each menu item under its menu section with the identifier for the action used in Qt and the default shortcut key combinations. These shortcuts can be changed through a JSON file with key combinations as outlined here

File

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
New	actionNew	Ctrl+N
Open…	actionOpen	Ctrl+O
Import RTF/CRE	actionImportRTF
Save	actionSave	Ctrl+S
Save Transcript Data at…	actionSaveAs
Export as… > Plain Text (.txt)	actionPlainText
Export as… > Plain ASCII (.txt)	actionPlainASCII
Export as… > ASCII (.txt)	actionASCII
Export as… > HTML (.html)	actionHTML
Export as… > SubRip (.srt)	actionSubRip
Export as… > OpenDocumentText(.odt)	actionODT
Export as… > RTF/CRE (*.rtf)	actionRTF
Export as… > Paper Tape (*.tape)	actionTape
Open Transcript Folder	actionOpenTranscriptFolder
Close	actionClose
Quit	actionQuit	Ctrl+Q

Edit

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
Undo	actionUndo	Ctrl+Z
Redo	actionRedo	Ctrl+Y
Copy	actionCopy	Ctrl+C
Cut	actionCut	Ctrl+X
Paste	actionPaste	Ctrl+V
Normal Copy	actionNormalCopy	Ctrl+Shift+C
Normal Paste	actionNormalPaste
Jump to Paragraph…	actionJumpToParagraph
Reset Paragraph	actionClearParagraph
Autosave	actionEnableAutosave
Set Autosave Time	actionSetAutosaveTime
Revert Transcript	actionRevertTranscript

Steno Actions

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
Merge Paragraphs	actionMergeParagraphs
Split Paragraph	actionSplitParagraph
Autocompletion	actionAutocompletion
Add Autocompletion Term	actionAddAutocompletionTerm	Ctrl+Alt+R
Retroactive Define	actionRetroactiveDefine	Ctrl+R
Define Last Untrans	actionDefineLast	Ctrl+Shift+R
Delete Last Untrans	actionDeleteLast
Lock Cursor At End	actionCursorAtEnd
Capture All Output	actionCaptureAllOutput
Translate Tape	actionTranslateTape

Insert

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
Image	actionInsertImage
Normal Text	actionInsertNormalText	Insert
Text From File	actionTextFromFile
Edit Fields	actionEditFields
Edit Indices	actionEditIndices

Media

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
Open Media	actionOpenAudio	Ctrl+Shift+O
Play/Pause	actionPlayPause	Ctrl+P
Stop	actionStopAudio	Ctrl+W
Skip Foward	actionSkipForward	Ctrl+L
Skip Back	actionSkipBack	Ctrl+J
Speed Up	actionSpeedUp	Ctrl+Shift+G
Slow Down	actionSlowDown	Ctrl+Shift+S
Sync Media Position	actionSyncMediaPosition
Show/Hide Video	actionShowVideo
Record/Pause	actionRecordPause	Ctrl+Shift+P
Stop Recording	actionStopRecording
Captioning	actionCaptioning
Flush Caption	actionFlushCaption
Play (TTS)	actionPlayTTS
Stop (TTS)	actionStopTTS

Styling

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
Select Style File…	actionStyleFileSelect
Create New Style	actionCreateNewStyle
Generate Style File From Template	actionGenerateStyleFromTemplate
Refresh Editor	actionRefreshEditor
Automatic Paragraph Affixes	actionAutomaticAffixes
Edit Paragraph Affixes	actionEditAffixes

Dictionary

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
Add Custom Dict	actionAddCustomDict
Remove Transcript Dict	actionRemoveTranscriptDict
Transcript Suggestions	actionTranscriptSuggestions

Tools

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
Styling	actionStyling
Page Format	actionPageFormat
Find/Replace Pane	actionFindReplacePane	Ctrl+F
Paragraph	actionParagraph
Spellcheck	actionSpellcheck
Steno Search	actionStenoSearch
Text to Speech	actionTextToSpeech
Online Lookup > Merriam-Webster	actionSearchMerriamWebster
Online Lookup > OED	actionSearchOED
Online Lookup > Wiktionary	actionSearchWiktionary
Online Lookup > Wikipedia	actionSearchWikipedia
Online Lookup > Google	actionSearchGoogle
Online Lookup > Duck Duck Go	actionSearchDuckDuckGo

Preferences

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
Show All Characters	actionShowAllCharacters
Window Font	actionWindowFont
Background Color	actionBackgroundColor
Paper Tape Font	actionPaperTapeFont
Docks > Paper Tape	actionPaperTape
Docks > Suggestions	actionSuggestions
Docks > History	actionHistory
Docks > Reveal Steno	actionRevealSteno
Docks > Audio Controls	actionAudioControls
Docks > Toolbox	actionToolbox
Edit Menu Shortcuts	actionEditMenuShortcuts
Opaqueness	actionOpaqueness
Stay On Top	actionStayOnTop

Help

Item	Action Identifier	Shortcut
About	actionAbout
User Manual	actionUserManual	F1
Acknowledgements	actionAcknowledgements
Diagnostics > View Plover Log	actionViewPloverLog
Diagnostics > Run Tests	actionRunTests