About

Continuing from the opening post:

Tiger Steno, named after the paw shape (KPR and -RPG) that you find in many of my strokes.

I love Plover, but man, I really do not care for some of the default strokes, so I made my own system based on symmetry and patterns. I didn't really have a choice:

• Many (all?) of the recommended Plover strokes for forcing capitalization and whatnot conflicted with Magnum's phrase enders, and the Plover commands were too scattered for me to remember anyway.
• The non-letters were also too scattered to remember, and I wanted the finger position to at least slightly resemble QWERTY. This was important not only for punctuation (because I want to write sentences and not just words in drills), but it'll help to replace the QWERTY keyboard with the steno keyboard entirely. Some people can actually do this!
• Many modes and such weren't even given a suggested stroke, so I had to invent them in a way that worked for me.
• The Learn Plover pages don't actually give you the proper translations to enter into your dictionary, so I'm including those along with a picture showing the exact keys you should press. I use the number bar a lot, and it's still confusing for me to read outlines with numbers, but the stroke pictures eliminate any guessing.

Check out my strokes for upper and lowercase under Text Formatting to see what I mean.

These new strokes wouldn't replace already-existing strokes in my main Magnum Steno dictionary; they only replace either raw steno output or stuff that just doesn't make sense (like SAEURPG replacing 'Sarah Palinning').

So that's my system: shapes and patterns instead of strokes that don't resemble each other at all when they really should. To me, that's what steno is all about. (That and writing more with less!)