Prefix support

[nimble0]

This would add support for automatic prefixes similar to the automatic suffixes -G, -S, -D, and -Z.

Example with prefix "T-":

Entries:
"T-": "the"
"WORLD": "world"

Input: TWORLD
Output: the world

Examples of potentially useful prefixes: "the", "{.}", "{,}", "{^}", "{-|}"

This would make no change in the functionality of the existing English stenotype system, it would be for use in new systems.

An implementation can be found here, but it's mixed with some other changes and based on a slightly outdated version of Plover: https://github.com/nimble0/plover/tree/extended-english-stenotype

Here's an implementation, it also has a few other changes to prefix/suffix handling: https://github.com/nimble0/plover/commits/feature/affix-strokes

[morinted]

I see this as a prerequisite to implementing orthographic systems à-la-vélotype where there is a "no space" key (without needing to rely on a python dictionary)

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[percidae]

I think this would be a great feature in plover for languages like German with lots of compound words and upper and lower case in sentences.

For German for example:
One key could be used as "shift" for upper case and another key could be used for "sticky" (no space) to put together compound words. This would avoid the need to have every possible combination of compound words in the dictionary and it would eliminate extra strokes for upper case in a sentence.

[nimble0]

I'm not familiar with any of the orthographic systems but I think you'd still need a python dictionary because you still only get one prefix and one suffix per stroke.

I remembered another prefix/suffix thing that could be good, which is support for prefix and suffix strokes instead of only single keys.