plover-retro-untranslator

• Converts the last X translations to a specified format consisting of any of the following:
  • raw steno
  • translation
  • definition
  • american translation
  • british translation

(video)

Examples

put these into your dictionary:

{
"RA*UD": "=retro_untranslator:`%r`",
"STRO*EBGD": "=retro_untranslator:`%r` → `%T`",
"TKAO*EFPBD": "=retro_untranslator:`%r` → `%D`",
"-P": "=retro_untranslator:%G",
"SPH-P": "=retro_untranslator:%A",
"PWR-P: "=retro_untranslator:%B",
}

example stroke ⇒ output:

KWRURPB/RA*UD ⇒ `KWRURPB`
KWRURPB/STRO*EBGD ⇒ `KWRURPB` → `yes, your Honor`
KWRURPB/TKAO*EFPBD ⇒ `KWRURPB` → `yes{,}your Honor`

Configuration

(literally the same thing as tapey-tape)

Code	Item	Example
%r	raw steno	KWRURPB
%D	definition	yes{,}your Honor
%T	translation	Yes, your Honor
%A	american translation	customize
%B	british translation	customise
%G	toggle translation	customise/customize
%%	an actual %	%

Prerequisites

• Download plover and find the executable
  • see this website for finding the location of plover depending on which platform you are using (Linux, Windows, etc.)

Installation

• Now run this command to install the library

<plover_executable> -s plover_plugins install plover-retro-untranslator

Developers

• This section shows how you can have an editable version of this project
• Firstly, fork this repository (in GitHub), then clone it:

git clone https://github.com/your_user_name/plover-retro-untranslator

• cd into this repo
• Then install for use!
  • Note that "plover" is the executable that you downloaded to make Plover work in the first place
  • See this [[https://plover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli_reference.html][website]] for the different locations depending on which platform you are using (Linux, Windows, etc)

cd plover-retro-translator
plover -s plover_plugins install -e .

Acknowledgments

• Sachac's plover-retro-stroke for motivating the creation of this plugin
• rabbitgrowth's tapey-tape for motivating the format of this plugin