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GNU Typist Release Notes
------------------------
See the `ChangeLog' (top-level and in some subdirectories) and
`THANKS' files for details about changes and contributors.
version 2.9.2 (TODO)
- fix collison between unicode 0x107 (c with accent) and KEY_BACKSPACE
(Reported by Kalthor <[email protected]>)
version 2.9.1 - November 2011
- Native Language Support added on Windows
- fixed support for UTF-8 on Windows
- re-added vim syntax highlighting and updated manual
- updated Polish translation, thanks to Jakub Bogusz
- several fixes to the build system
Version 2.9 - October 2011
- Full UTF-8 support
- New Colemak typing lessons
- Many new international lessons imported from KTouch 1.6 and
update of the german tipptrainer 0.6.0 lesson
- New Spanish manual, thanks to smc
- Tracking of personal best scores
- New Polish translation, thanks to Jakub Bogusz
- New Turkish translation, thanks to Gökçen Eraslan
- We are dropping support for the DJGPP compiler (DOS), although the
MinGW GCC compiler is still supported.
Version 2.8.5 - March 2011
- Fixed an issue that prevented installation.
- Corrected a minor typo in a lesson.
Version 2.8.4 - February 2011
- Bug fixed where pressing escape at some prompts could crash gtypist
- A few corrected typos in some lessons (thanks to Elmar Zander)
Version 2.8 - May 2008
- License updated to the GNU General Public License version 3.
- Windows NT-based builds (Windows 2000/XP) now supported.
- "Characters Per Minute" scoring mode via "--scoring=cpm"
- New Simplified Chinese interface from Wei Mingzhi
- Many small bug fixes and other updates;
see the ChangeLog files for details.
Version 2.7 - September 2003
- New menu-based ncurses interface, replacing function keys.
You can use arrow keys to navigate in the menus.
You can use vi keys too!
Much more reliable and user friendly!
- Make a few changes in the lesson file syntax to support menus.
- Built with automake-1.7.7, texinfo-4.6 and gettext-0.12.1
- New Traditional Chinese interface from OLS3 <[email protected]>
- New Dutch interface from J.M. Cogels <[email protected]>
- New Russian interface and lessons
from Dmitry Rutsky <[email protected]>
- Now ignores trailing spaces in lesson file lines which
were invisible in the interface.
- Now only counts one mistake when a key was missed or
when the user presses the correct key after an error.
Implemented by Rob Leslie <[email protected]>
- HTML manual (English and Czech) now available in the source package.
- Lots of small fixes and improvements
(See the ChangeLog file for details)
Version 2.6.2 - September/2002
- Now installs lessons (bug only in version 2.6.1).
Version 2.6.1 - August/2002
- findwords.sh: new script to help with creating lessons.
See the manual for details.
- configure: checks for ncurses if curses if not available.
- built with automake-1.6.3 and gettext-0.11.5.
Version 2.6 - April/2002
- New `typefortune' (perl-)script which creates lessons from `fortune'
(see the new section "Using typefortune" in the manual).
- New interface messages and manual in Czech
from Hynek Hanke <[email protected]>.
- New lessons in Czech from Hynek Hanke and Richard Susta <[email protected]>.
- Manual now using `@copying' as recommended in texinfo-4.2,
and released under the GNU Free Documentation License
(with no Invariant Sections).
- Built with automake 1.6.1, autoconf 2.53, gettext 0.11.1
and texinfo 4.2, following their latest guidelines.
Version 2.5.1 - February/2002
- fix a bug in --help output
- small documentation fixes
Version 2.5 - January/2002
- Allowed the user to skip an exercise or exit the lesson by
pressing ESC twice (once to restart and then again at the
beginning of the exercise to skip)
- Added new switch --no-skip which prohibits the user from skipping
exercises
- Removed more occurrences of "Q: Press Y to continue, ..." following
an exercise (because this is builtin since 2.4) in d.typ, r.typ, v.typ
and esp.typ
- Removed all occurrences of "Q: Press Y to cont..." following T: :
It doesn't make sense to repeat a T:, the standard message
"Press Enter to continue." is better (d.typ, v.typ, r.typ)
(multi-page T:'s are the exception)
- The last two changes make the lesson-files quite a bit simpler
- Fixed errors in d.typ and esp.typ (see lessons/ChangeLog)
- Renamed --wpmode to --word-processor
- Added interface messages in French (using gtranslator)
- Spanish interface updated by José Pelegrín <[email protected]>
- Fixes for undefined symbols errors compiling on Unix systems
(such as Solaris) when both curses and ncurses are installed.
Version 2.4.1 - November/2001
- documentation: fix some TODOs, shorten the node-names
and add descriptions in menus, remove node "Technical Information"
and place its children on top-level and small markup changes
- gtypist-mode.el now works with XEmacs as well (because of this,
gtypist-mode-goto-label is now bound to C-c M-g)
Version 2.4 - September/2001
- Added Finnish Native Language Support
- Changes to the types of exercises: d,D for drills and s,S
for speed-tests
- Added commands E: (sets error-max) and F: (sets "on failure" label)
(currently only used in demo.typ and esp.typ)
- do_drill, do_speedtest: added "builtin repeat loop"
- print_help: only break on whitespace in help-strings, use ';'
to separate words.
- Allowed translation of the "do you want to repeat?" message
(which is possible because it is now builtin) and the corresponding
keys (Y/N)
- fatal_error: made the output more logical
- Allowed "give up" (repeat lesson) via ESC (there is no way to
skip an exercise in 2.4)
- Added (unsigned char) cast in ADDCH, ADDCH_REV to support
8bit-characters in exercises
- Rewrote command-line parsing + use '-' as word-separator in
long options
- command_char's are case-sensitive now
- Ignores trailing whitespace in labels
- Added new lessons which are converted from ktouch-1.0
(http://ktouch.sourceforge.net)
kt*.typ, converted by tools/ktouch2typ.pl and
tipptrainer-0.3.3
(http://www.pingos.schulnetz.org/tipptrainer):
currently only the german lesson, which is in ttde.typ, converted
by tools/tt2typ.pl.
- An Emacs-mode for editing gtypist's script-files:
tools/gtypist-mode.el
- Improved i18n-support
- Improved German translation (with help from [email protected])
- Minor fixes (build, charset definition)
- Documentation improvements
Version 2.3.2 - Nov/2000
- Now this program is part of GNU! We celebrate with a new
name: "GNU Typist" (or gtypist) and a new release
- New documentation in Texinfo format, the man page now is
generated automatically with the program help2man
- Now configure supports curses if ncurses is not available
(thanks to Caolan McNamara <[email protected]>)
Version 2.3.1 - Sep/2000
- Fixed bug with --datadir reported by [email protected]
Installation of data by default now in prefix/share/typist
- Now the keys F1,F2,...,F12 can be "emulated" with
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,A,S and also C-q, C-w, C-r, C-t, C-z, C-u,
C-i, C-o, C-p, C-a, C-s
- Fixed bug in word processor mode reported by Ben Armstrong,
<[email protected]> now by default this mode is
off, it can be activated with the option --wpmode or -w.
(The option --nowpmode doesn't exist anymore)
- Better documentation for installing typist with Dvorak keyboards
and under DOS without Long File Name Support (tested under DOS 6.22)
Version 2.3 - Ago/2000
- New lesson in spanish (lessons/esp.typ)
- NLS (Native Language Support) added (via GNU gettext).
- Avalaible NLS for Spanish (po/es.po) and German (po/de.po)
- Ported to Windows/DOS with the DJGPP compiler and PDCURSES library
- New configuration scheme, using automake and autoconf
Version 2.2b:
- Fixed a bug in exercises, where the typing timer was not started
when the exercise begins with space characters and word processing
behaviour is enabled.
- Moved the binary to typist_bin, and created a typist shell script
wrapper to try to cope with TYPIST_PATH not set, and the variations
in the location of the terminfo database between RedHat 5.2 and
other platforms.
- Again, why not look at 'Jtypist'.
Version 2.2a:
- Added word processing like behaviour to the exercises, so that
multiple spaces combine into one, return moves to the next
paragraph, space is accepted at the end of a line, and hyphens
at a line's end are skipped.
- Fixed drills so that delete does not actually insert an error,
but is now just ignored.
- Corrected backspace key detection on RedHat Linux 5.2.
Version 2.2:
- Removed the C++ version of the program. Apart from my elderly
slackware system, this would not really compile anywhere else,
and was causing more problems than it was worth.
- Added the "one-time" 'O' drill command.
- Added the function key to label binding 'K' command, to allow
better menus to be built.
- Tidied the C program for better error handling. It's still a
bit messy, though.
- Optimised T/D/O/P commands to avoid "Press return to continue"
where they are directly followed by a Q command.
- Updated typv1tov2 and typcombine to use these new features,
and output improved menus that use the function keys for direct
access to lessons, and repeat-this-exercise queries.
- The typist binary is now statically linked for Linux, to try
to enhance its portability as a binary. The build system is
now RedHat 5.2, and the program is now an incredible 700kB
as a static binary.
- All of these enhancements got finished up after I had completed
the Java version, 'Jtypist'. If you can, I'd heartily recommend
that you use the Java one instead of this package. It has a
far better interface, and lots of extra features that Typist 2.2
doesn't have. You should be able to obtain a copy of it from
the same place that you picked up this package from.
Version 2.1a:
- Whole package GPLified. Otherwise, no changes. None.
Nothing at all. Really.