steno-dictionaries VS emily-symbols

https://steno.sammdot.ca/emily-symbols.png

for these, where it says starter, you just press all those keys down, and then on the other side you press the keys listed for what you want. so for example, I can enter like ~104 symbols without moving my hands. the average sybmol layer has like 20. the crossplatform movement dict lets me move around much easier in any text field. (note that you don't really even need to know what the key names you are pressing are as its all a pattern) I currently have six other dictionaries that I use some of the time. you can see more here: https://www.openstenoproject.org/stenodict/.

any cli program would be very easy to add most of the commands to a dictionary if you wanted. for example, a basic git dictionary: https://github.com/didoesdigital/steno-dictionaries/blob/mas...

plover has made using a computer much more fun. its a bit of a hard sell for a lot of people, but I recommend trying out some of the other dictionaries to see what you can do besides type words fast. its seriously really crazy that we are only pressing one key at a time using a keyboard.

In the spirit of reduction, I look another look at https://github.com/didoesdigital/steno-dictionaries/blob/master/dictionaries/dict.json. In the same way that I asked how many of the 128 left-hand (four fingers only) states are actually used by the dictionary, I can also ask how many of the 4 million available chords are actually used?

I'd like to try Emily's Symbols but don't know how to install it. Can anyone help me out?

There are no easy/standard steno chords for special symbols (e.g. !@#$%^&*). (I like to use [Emily's Symbol Dictionary]( https://github.com/EPLHREU/emily-symbols) for this.)

You can easily extend Emily Symbols to do whatever symbols you like. You can also use Emily Modifiers to take advantage of any keyboard shortcuts that exist in the editor you are using.

> Does it work for programming?

Yes, you can customize your dictionaries as much as you like and add common words/symbols that you use in programming, and there are decent options for writing in camelCase etc. There's also Emily's symbol dictionary which is good for writing various symbols [1], here's a poster showing all the symbols available in it [2].

> does it work for typing in different languages?

Yes. As long as there's an existing steno theory for the languages you want to use, then you can download those dictionaries and learn those theories. But if there isn't an existing theory/dictionary for a language then you can just use fingerspelling instead [3] (i.e., write letter by letter like on a regular keyboard), although that's ofc much slower than regular Steno is.

[1] https://github.com/EPLHREU/emily-symbols

[2] https://steno.sammdot.ca/emily-symbols.png

[3] https://steno.sammdot.ca/plover-fingerspelling.png

I'm using Plover to input text into my computer from the steno machine, and its translation engine supports several casing modes (including camelCase, snake_case and even kebab-case), so you can easily write variable names and what not. In addition, someone made a symbols dictionary that lets me type all sorts of punctuation and operators. Great for all kinds of computer use, not just code specifically.

Take a look at Emily's Symbols, they make writing various odd symbols a breeze. I'm only aware of Ted (developer of Plover) who uses steno for his coding work.