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gtypist – manual page for gtypist 2.8.1

Synopsis

gtypist [ Options… ] [ script-file ]

Description

`gtypist’ is a typing tutor with several lessons for different keyboards and languages. New lessons can be written by the user easily.

Options

-e % –max-error=%: default maximum error percentage (default 3.0); valid values are between 0.0 and 100.0
-n –notimer: turn off WPM timer in drills
-t –term-cursor: use the terminal’s hardware cursor
-f P –curs-flash=P: cursor flash period P*.1 sec (default 10); valid values are between 0 and 512; this is ignored if -t is specified
-c F,B –colours=F,B: set initial display colours where available
-s –silent: don’t beep on errors
-q –quiet: same as -s, –silent
-l L –start-label=L: start the lesson at label ‘L’
-w –word-processor try to mimic word processors
-k –no-skip: forbid the user to skip exercises
-i –show-errors: highlight errors with reverse video
-h –help: print this message
-v –version: output version information and exit
-S –always-sure: do not ask confirmation questions
–banner-colors=F,B,P,V set top banner colours (background, foreground,: package and version respectively)
–scoring=wpm,cpm: set scoring mode (words per minute or characters per minute)

If not supplied, script-file defaults to ‘/usr/local/share/gtypist/gtypist.typ’. The path $GTYPIST_PATH is searched for script files.

Examples

To run the default lesson in english `gtypist.typ’:

gtypist

To run the lesson in spanish:

gtypist esp.typ

To instruct gtypist to look for lesson `bar.typ’ in a non standard directory:

GTYPIST_PATH="/home/foo" gtypist bar.typ

To run the lesson in the file `test.typ’ of directory `temp’, starting at label `TEST1′, using the terminal’s cursor, and run silently:

gtypist -t -q -l TEST1 /temp/test.typ

Author

Written by Simon Baldwin

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to bug-gtypist [at] gnu.org

Copyright

Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Simon Baldwin.
Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2008 GNU Typist Development Team. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details please see the file ‘COPYING’ supplied with the source code.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; again, see ‘COPYING’ for details. This program is released under the GNU General Public License.

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