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[bug-gtypist] GTypist for Beginners


From: Felix Natter
Subject: [bug-gtypist] GTypist for Beginners
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:19:17 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

hi to All,

This is also directed to users of gtypist that are on this list,
I would very much welcome feedback from you!

Recently a friend of mine tested gtypist under Ubuntu and didn't know a
few things:

- -e option (the default, -e 3, is too hard for most beginners)
- how to resize the terminal (the default is too small to use comfortably)?
- do you have to press Enter at the end of each line (could be space as
  well)?
- good: drills and speedtests are explained in the manual
- ...

I currently see two ways of making gtypist more beginner friendly:

I. Write a tutorial that tells about above things such as using -e 5|10,
   how to resize a terminal, how to show Enter symbols (unicode
   0x23CE) which should help beginners (but annoys more experienced users!)
   and so on.

II. Add a "beginner mode" which is enabled by default, and can be turned off
   by --expert/-x
- this would set -e 5|10
- this would explicitly show "return symbols"
- includes a help page that explains drills/speedtests, how to resize a
  terminal window, how to disable "beginner mode", ...
- how is that help page shown?
  x either we have a beginner.typ that is executed before gtypist.typ
    in beginner mode (requires switching of *.typ during runtime, which
    isn't yet implemented) or
  x we have special T:[BEGINNER] commands that are only executed in
    beginner mode

So what do you think?

Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter



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