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Made with love by Frank <tristesse@gmail.com>
A named collection of lessons, for example the name of a file. A source is generated automatically when importing a file. After import the file is no longer needed as the lessons are stored in Amphetype's internal database.
(To delete a full source, [disable] all its lessons, and then [delete disabled].)
The settings is (by default) stored in a file called amphetype.ini. Its location varies based on OS, but it should be where programs usually store configs. The database (containing all statistics as well as full copies of extracted lessons) will usually be called USERNAME.db where USERNAME is your login name on the computer. The database roughly corresponds to a "profile" so if several people wanted to use Amphetype on the same computer with a single user they'd probably use different database files.
Both of these files can be specified at the command line with parameters "--settings file.ini" and "--database file.db", tho technically only the setting file is necessary for full portable profile since the settings file specifies the database.
Another alternative is to use the command line parameter "--local" which makes Amphetype read/save its local data wherever it is installed (for example on a USB drive).
See also "--help" for more command line options.
If you don't know what command line parameters are or how to specify them, the best I can do is try searching for "windows how to edit command line parameters" or similar.
(On the other side of the spectrum, for more advanced usage, you can also use environment variables to set most of these options, like AMPH_LOGFILE, AMPH_SETTINGS, AMPH_LOCAL.)
When I originally wrote the program and started pushing myself to type faster, I noticed there were certain words and key combinations that felt very awkward or uncomfortable and slowed me down. They were very noticeable subjectively, giving a somewhat cramped feeling in my hand, the finger movements seemingly breaking apart into hesitating spider-like jerks. It made my flow feel viscous. And I made some ad hoc attempt at coming up with a statistic for identifying these words and combinations.
It was originally calculated roughly as the sum of statistical variance on each key. Later (for Typer 2) I changed it to looking only at the variance of keys that were slower than average. But neither method is very well thought out, nor theoretically sound. You can probably ignore this number. I'm not really sure what the best measure would be.
Amphetype requires the exact character as input. If the text asks for "—" (em dash) then "-" (hyphen) won't work, ordinarily. The "force ASCII" option will try to change unicode symbols like these (“fancy” quote characters, ellipses (…), etc.) into regular ASCII equivalents.
Another option is to edit the file you're importing from directly. Just make sure you're not using an editor that might change the text in unexpected ways on save (like Microsoft Word?). Be careful also when copy-pasting text from the web, so it doesn't contain weirdness like invisible space characters.
For more help, check out the FAQ. If your question isn't answered, shoot me a message on GitLab or add an issue there (or email me).
This is a complicated program so it's tough to cover everything, but an example workflow might be the following (which is how I personally used it).
This is a complicated program so it's tough to cover everything, but an example workflow might be the following (which is how I personally used it).
Text files from Project Gutenberg. Word lists from SCOWL by Kevin Atkinson. Originally made with PyQt4, later PyQt5 by Riverbank Computing, Python bindings for the wonderful Qt GUI library by Trolltech. Code less, create more indeed. CSS themes includede are from GTRONICK/QSS GitHub project licensed under MIT. You're encouraged to modify these.
Licenced under the GNU v3 license. See project's LICENSE file for more information.
Amphetype - advanced typing program
Copyright (C) 2008-2022 Frank S. Hestvik
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