Typist



GNU Typist

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Table of Contents

Introduction to GNU Typist

What Is the Job of an Online Typist? Online typists are administrative professionals who work outside the office. They prepare documents for their employer from home or a different location with internet connectivity. As an online typist, your responsibilities vary, depending on the industry and company.

GNU Typist (also called gtypist) isa universal typing tutor. You can learn correct typing and improveyour skills by practising its exercises on a regular basis. Its mainfeatures are:

  • It is free software released underthe GNU General PublicLicense. In addition, it is an official program ofthe GNU project.
  • It comes with several typing tutorials: in Czech, English (QWERTY,Dvorak and Colemak keyboards), Russian and Spanish, as well as simplerexercises in German, French and Norwegian.
  • It interprets a simple and intuitive scripting language thatdescribes typing tutorials. You can easily modify existing tutorialsor create new ones according to your needs.
  • It supports internationalization and already has an interface inCzech, English, Finnish, French, German and Spanish.
  • Users can navigate through lessons through an easy to use arrowkey based menu interface. 'vi' up, down, left and right keys can beused too!
  • Thanks to its execution in text mode with the curses library, itcan be compiled and used on several operating systems, in particularon GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd, on several variants of Unix, as well as onWindows with the PDCurses library and MinGW.

Project goals

The aim of this Free Software project is to provide valuable help toindividuals and schools all over the world in learning or teaching howto type.

Free Software can be a valuableresource in education. Not only can it be technically or pedagogicallysuperior to proprietary counterparts, but it can also promote thevalues of the GNU project in the schools:

  • Freedom
  • Cooperation

See the Education sectionfor more details about Free Software for Education.

As project maintainers, our main goal is toprotect users' freedom and encourage their cooperation, by:

  • Encouraging users and teachers to share their needs and bringcontributions.
  • Keeping the tool open and easily extensible. Our goal is to empower anyone,in particular amongst typing teachers, to satisfy one's needs by improvinglessons or writing new ones, as well as by making the tool work in one's ownlanguage.
  • Making the tool universal, attractive and easy to use, so that as manypeople as possible benefit from contributed work and knowledge. This shouldalso strengthen the user community and attract new contributors.

To see a full list of the current plans we have to improve GNU Typist,you can read the latest TODOfile, availablehere. In a nutshell, our major long-term plans include:

  • Porting the interface to GTK make it easier to use and navigatebetween lessons.
  • Displaying the keyboard layout and indicating which finger issupposed to be used while typing.

Downloading GNU Typist

The latest stable release of GNU Typist is version 2.9.5, released in August 2014.

GNU Typist can be found onhttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/(via HTTP) andftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/(via FTP). It can also be found on oneof our FTP mirrors; please use a mirrorif possible.

For Windows users, pre-compiled binaries are available. Thesecurrently may have a problem with multi-byte input which will beaddressed in the next release. The binaries are available in .7zformat and can be found in the w32_binaries folder.

Documentation

GNU Typist documentation can be found athttp://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/doc/.You may also find more information about GNU Typist by running“info gtypist”, “man gtypist”, or looking in thedocumentation directory for gtypist on your system (which mightbe /usr/share/doc/gtypist/ or something similar).

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Mailing Lists

The discussion list for GNU Typist is<bug-gtypist@gnu.org>,and is used to discuss all aspects of GNU Typist, including supportquestions, bug reports, suggestions, patches, and new lessons.

Announcements about GNU Typist and most other GNU software are made on<info-gnu@gnu.org>.

To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an emptymail with a Subject: header line of just 'subscribe' to the relevant-request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to GNU announcementlist, you would send mailto <info-gnu-request@gnu.org>with no body and a Subject: header line of just 'subscribe'. Or youcan usethe mailinglist web interface.

Request an Enhancement

If you would like any new feature to be included in future versions ofGNU Typist, please send a request to<bug-gtypist@gnu.org>.

Please remember that development of GNU Typist is a volunteer effort,and you can also contribute to its development. For information aboutcontributing to the GNU Project, please read How tohelp GNU.

Report a Bug

If you think you have found a bug in GNU Typist, then please send ascomplete a report as possible to<bug-gtypist@gnu.org>.

Helping GNU Typist

You can contribute to GNU Typist by sending bug reports, suggestions,patches and new lessonsto <bug-gtypist@gnu.org>.

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You can also directly access the development versions of documentationand source files inour Gitrepository. In particular, here are direct links to the latestversions of ourTODO and QUESTIONS(answers to Brave GNU World questions) files

You mayalso subscribeto the bug-gtypist@gnu.org mailing list.

How to contribute new lessons

You can contribute a new tutorial in 2 ways:

  1. Simply type the tutorial, containing instructions and exercises, in aplain text file (or in another open and standard format, such asHTML). You may reuse some instructions available in existingtutorials, in thelessons/ directory in the GNU Typist sources.
    Send itto <bug-gtypist@gnu.org>.
    Another contributor will take care of converting your tutorial to theGNU Typist format.
  2. You can also directly write your tutorial in the GNU Typistformat. It is a simple scripting language which is described in theonline manual.
    Once your lesson file is complete, you can test it by simply typing(if you named it new.typ):
    gtypist new.typ
    You can then send it to us as described above.

Instructions for writing interface messages in new languages will beavailable soon.

Other free typing tutors

There are other free typing tutors, most of them released under the GNU GeneralPublic License. They're worth trying too!

  • dvorak7min is a simple ncurses-based typing tutor for those trying to get fluent with the Dvorak keyboard layout.
  • DvorakNG DvorakNG is a Dvorak typing tutor. It's heavily based on Dvorak7min, but adds many improvements like a progress information database.
  • gcompris is a set of educational games designed for small children, including typing games.
  • Griffin is an effort to write a free typing tutor for as many Unices as possible (BSD License).
  • JRainWords is a small java program useful for teaching small children about the keyboard.
  • jsTypingTutor is a JavaScript program that attempts to help users and developers type faster and more accurately. Many files are included for the user to practice on - but, you may also use any text that can be copied and pasted into the main screen.
  • KTouch is another program for learning to touch type. KTouch provides you with text to train on, and adjust to different levels, depending on how good you are. It can display which key to press next, and the correct finger to use.
  • Makin' Bakon is a typing tutor game written in C++ with STL and curses. Save Pig from the supermarket shelves while learning to type to a professional standard! It Uses the Fortune database for some of it's exercises. Contains material that may offend!
  • Tipptrainer is another graphical typing tutor. At the moment, it is available in two languages (German and English) and for two key-maps (PC-German and PC-English).
  • Tux Typing is a graphical, educational typing tutorial game starring Tux, the GNU/Linux Penguin.
  • Typespeed is a game to test your typing speed, and compare it with your friends'.
  • Typing Trainer is designed for exercising typing speed and typing accuracy, by providing an environment to type in a copy of an original text within a specific time period. It also has the ability to store the results of such an exercise for exam purposes.

Maintainer

GNU Typist is currently being maintained by Tim Marston.


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typ·ist

(tī′pĭst)
n.
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typist

(ˈtaɪpɪst)
n
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typ•ist

(ˈtaɪ pɪst)
n.
[1880–85]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Noun1.typist - someone paid to operate a typewriter
employee - a worker who is hired to perform a job
touch-typist - a skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboard
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
كَاتِبٌ عَلَى الآلَةِ الكَاتِبَةكاتِب على الآلَةِ الكاتِبَه
maskinskriver
konekirjoittaja
daktilograf
타이피스트
strojepisec
ผู้พิมพ์ดีด
nhân viên đánh máy

typist

[ˈtaɪpɪst]N → mecanógrafo/a m/f

Typist Jobs

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

typist

n (professional) → Schreibkraftf, → Stenotypist(in)m(f), → Tippsef (pej inf); he couldn’t find a typist for his thesis → er konnte niemandenfinden, der ihm seine Doktorarbeittippte
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Typist Definition

(taip) noun
1. (a particular variety of) metal blocks with letters, numbers etc used in printing. Can we have the headline printed in a different type? lettertipe يَطْبَع шрифт tipo typy die Drucktype type; skrift κατηγορία τυπογραφικών στοιχείων letra, carácter ðrift حرف چاپی kirjasin caractère אוֹתִיוֹת דְפוּס टाइप tiskarsko slovo betű(típus) model huruf leturgerð tipo, carattere 活字体 활자체 šriftas, spaudmenys burtu veids; druka jenis tulisan lettersoortskrifttypeczcionka چاپی حرف tipo caracter шрифт typ tisk štamparska slova typ, stilsort บล็อกพิมพ์อักษร harf, karakter, punto (排版中的)鉛字字號 шрифт حروف اور گنتيوں کے پليٹ loại （排版中的）铅字字号
2. printed letters, words etc. I can't read the type – it's too small. letters حَرْف طِباعي напечатан текст letra, tipo písmo die Schrift skrift τυπογραφικά στοιχεία letra, carácter tekst متن چاپ شده teksti caractères כָּתוּב בְּאוֹתִיוֹת דְפוּס टाइप tisak, tiskano slovo betű cetakan letur carattere 活字 활자 šriftas burtu raksts; druka tulisan drukskriftdruk چاپ شوی متن letra, tipo caractere шрифт písmo črke štamparska slova bokstäver, text ตัวอักษรหรือคำที่ถูกพิมพ์ harfler 鉛字，活字 шрифт لکھے ہوئے حروف و الفاظ chữ in 铅字，活字
verb
to write (something) using a typewriter. Can you type?; I'm typing a letter. tik يَطْبَع على الآلَةِ الكاتِبَه набирам datilografar psát na stroji tippen maskinskrive δαχτυλογραφώ mecanografiar, escribir a máquina kirjutusmasinal kirjutama تایپ کردن kirjoittaa näppäimistöllä/kirjoituskoneella dactylographier לְהַדפִּיס टाइप करना, टंकण करना tipkati (le)gépel mengetik vélrita dattilografare タイプする 타자기로 치다 (pa)rašyti mašinėle rakstīt ar rakstāmmašīnu menaip typenskrive på maskin, taste inn pisać na maszynie تایپ کول datilografar a dacti­lo­grafia печатать písať na stroji tipkati kucati skriva på maskin พิมพ์ daktilo ile yazmak 打字 друкувати на машинці ٹائپ رائٹر سے لکھنا đánh máy 打字
ˈtyping, typewriting noun
writing produced by a typewriter. fifty pages of typing. tikwerk طِباعَه набиране на печатна машина datilografia strojopis die Maschinenschrift maskinskrivning δαχτυλογραφημένο κείμενο mecanografía trükitekst متن ماشین شده teksti dactylographieהדפסה टंकण tipkani tekst (író)gépelés, gépírás ketikan vélritun dattilografia タイプで打ったもの 타자된 것 mašinraštis mašīnraksts taipan getypte kopij maskinskrevne arkmaszynopis ټایپ شوی متن datilografia dactilo­gra­fiere машинописный текст strojopis tipkano besedilo kucanje maskinskrivning การพิมพ์ daktilo yazısı 打字稿(文件) друкування ٹائپ رائٹر کي لکھائي sự đánh máy 打字稿（文件）
ˈtypist noun
a person whose job is to type. She works as a typist; She is a typist in a publishing firm. intikker, tikster كاتِب على الآلَةِ الكاتِبَه машинописец datilógrafo písař, -ka der/die Maschinenschreiber(in) maskinskriver δαχτυλογράφος mecanógrafo masinakirjutaja تایپیست konekirjoittaja dactyloמדפיס टाइप करने वाला, टंकण करने वाला tipkač, daktilograf gépíró(nő) jurutik vélritari dattilografo タイピスト 타자수 mašininkė mašīnrakstītāja jurutaip typistemaskinskriver, sekretærmaszynistka ټایپیست datilografo dactilograf машинистка pisár, -ka strojepisec daktilograf maskinskrivare, -skriverska พนักงานพิมพ์ดีด daktilograf 打字員 друкарка ٹائپ کرنے والا nhân viên đánh máy 打字员
Typistˈtypewriter noun
a machine with keys for printing letters on a piece of paper. a portable / an electric typewriter. tikmasjien آلة كاتِبَه печатна машина máquina de escrever / datilógrafo psací stroj die Schreibmaschine skrivemaskine γραφομηχανήmáquina de escribir kirjutusmasin ماشین تحریر kirjoituskone machine à écrire מְכוֹנַת כְּתִיבָה टंकण मशीन pisači stroj írógép mesin tik ritvél macchina da scrivere タイプライター 타자기 rašomoji mašinėlė rakstāmmašīna mesin taip schrijfmachineskrivemaskinmaszyna do pisania د تحریر ماشین maquinq de escrever maşină de scris пишущая машинка písací stroj pisalni stroj pisaća mašina skrivmaskin เครื่องพิมพ์ดีด daktilo 打字機 друкарська машинка ٹائپ رائٹر مشين máy chữ 打字机
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→ كَاتِبٌ عَلَى الآلَةِ الكَاتِبَةTypist písař maskinskriverSchreibkraftδακτυλογράφοςmecanógrafoTypist konekirjoittajadactylo daktilografdattilografo タイピスト 타이피스트typistmaskinskrivermaszynistkadactilógrafo, datilógrafoмашинистка maskinskrivare ผู้พิมพ์ดีดdaktilograf nhân viên đánh máy打字员
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