Steno Dictionaries for Plover

Overview

This repository contains stenography dictionaries. Each dictionary provides translations that make up a stenography theory. These translations are read by Plover, a free, open source stenography engine. Plover uses these translations to convert steno strokes into written words.

The main dictionary used by this repo is Diana MacDonald's Typey Type dictionary. This dictionary is based on Plover's own dictionary. Plover's theory was originally based on StenEd.

This repository also contains a dictionary from Paul Fioravanti's steno-dictionaries repo for transcribing a court Q & A session. An attempt was made to preserve the history of this file when copying it into this repository.¹.

This repository also has commands to dynamically retrieve other helpful dictionaries as described in more detail in the following sections.

Prerequisites

In order to download dictionaries retrieved from other sources, you will need to install Just. Just will let you execute the recipes contained in justfile.

Dictionary overview

The following dictionaries are included in the dictionaries folder:

• commands.json - contains a subset of the default modifier commands and Plover control commands
• typey-type-full.json - Typey Type's dictiory. Builds on Plover's dictionary with misstrokes removed from the top 10,000 words. with roots in the StenEd theory. Contains more than 147,000 translations.
• user.json - a custom dictionary that can be used to override the default translations provided in typey-type-full.json
• a dictionary from Paul Fioravanti's steno-dictionaries repo for transcribing a court Q & A session. See the Plover Q&A Plugin's Instructions page for more information on what this dictionary contains and how it can be used with the Plover Q&A plugin.

Dictionaries retrieved from other sources

The following dictionaries are automatically retrieved using the command just retrieve_dicts from the root of this repository:

• emily-symbols.py - for more information, see emily-symbols
• emily-modifiers.py - for more information, see emily-modifiers

The definition of the retrieve_dicts Just recipe (and all other recipes) can be found in the justfile.

Footnotes

1. Git Filter Repo was used to preserve the Git history for the q-and-a.md dictionary. (The literal command used was python3 git-filter-repo --path dictionaries/q-and-a.md) ↩