Comments on: Accelerated typing anyone?

By: Migraine

Migraine — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:22:58 +0000

The more writing you do, the more useful that glossary/auto-correct thing becomes. Especially when writing at length; while hacking out a doctoral thesis a decade ago I set up a whole series of shortcuts for frequently appearing words (in this case, ‘Shakespeare’ and derivatives). The point wasn’t necessarily to save time, but to ensure accuracy and minimise aggravation.

Yes, it took a lot of work to set up. And dear God yes, if I’d been able to swap auto-correct and glossary files with someone I’d have leapt at the chance.

By: Yobbo

Yobbo — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:54:28 +0000

Learn to type properly and it shouldn’t be an issue. It takes less than a second to type “commission”, even if you type it 100 times you aren’t getting back the investment of time it took to edit your spell checker.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:52:31 +0000

Anyone want to swap ‘Auto-correct’ backup files?

By: Sacha

Sacha — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:48:02 +0000

I’ve never used glossaries!

By: wbb

wbb — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:02:54 +0000

I use a word processor that automatically changes my abbreviations to the full spelling.

My favourite short-cuts include:

t = the
n = and
c = with
b4 = before
t4 = therefore

By: Migraine

Migraine — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:42:12 +0000

Constructing the glossary takes time, but it’s usually worth it. Coping with a built-in dictionary that doesn’t recognise the word ‘blog’ is another matter.