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• eviks 3y ago
  thanks, that looks very complicated, but maybe it's still very fast, so hence my original question - has there been some research into those improvements? Maybe adding an extra key would make it much better? Maybe in some cases holding is better (like repeatable cursor movements), etc
  • spit2wind 3y ago
    What do you mean by "research into those improvements"? A steno theory is a correspondence between key combinations and output. The theory is a (hopefully) cohesive system for remembering that mapping. By academic research, I don't know of any. I don't know of any for 1:1 keyboard mappings either. I suppose you could say that "used by the entire profession of court reporters daily for a century" might constitue some kind of research. A steno theory can behave more like a language than a layout. It may evolve over time and has an associated culture. But it also operates at the individual level. No two steno users will have the same dictionary.
  • spit2wind 3y ago
    If you mean at a hardware level, yes. But that's not unique to steno. Mark Kingsbury, the world record holder, uses some touch sensitive board thing that isn't mechanical (if I recall correctly). There are plenty of keyboard hobbiests who make chorded boards, some with more keys, some with less, some in line, others with curvature. This gets a little in the direction of "what is steno"? Is it the STPHKWRAO*EUFPLTRBGS layout? Is it the common portions between theories? What differentiates "steno" from "chorded"?