plover-fancytext 1.2.0

Silly output formatting plugin for Plover

This is a plugin for the open source stenography program Plover

Requires Plover version 4.0.0 or later

What it does

Allows you to use Plover to output text in various (mostly joke, mostly unicode) text formats

Examples:

• bubble: ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔ

• crytyping: I’ finne,,, h ddon’nt w,,,orry about me, re,,el yy

• fullwidth: ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ

• medieval: 𝕸𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖆𝖑

• sarcasm: wELl ThIs IS cONvEnIeNt

• upsidedown: ndsᴉpǝ poʍu

• zalgo: z̓ä́l̘g̩̚o͡t́èx͓͠ẗ̬

Installing

1. Open Plover

2. Navigate to the Plugin Manager tool

3. Select ‘plover_fancytext’ in the list

4. Click install

5. Restart Plover

6. In the Configure menu, navigate to the plugins section

7. Enable ‘plover_fancytext’ and apply

Usage

You’ll need to add Plover dictionary entries to toggle on/off the modes

The format is {:fancytext_set:<mode>} to turn on the mode and simply {:fancytext_set:off} to turn off any mode.

Here’s what I use (23*9 is more easily read as #TP*T):

{
"23*9": "{:fancytext_set:off}",
"23*9/PW-UB": "{:fancytext_set:bubble}",
"23*9/KRAO-EU": "{:fancytext_set:crytyping}",
"23*9/SRA-EUP": "{:fancytext_set:fullwidth}",
"23*9/PH-ED": "{:fancytext_set:medieval}",
"23*9/SA-RBG": "{:fancytext_set:sarcasm}",
"23*9/-UP": "{:fancytext_set:upsidedown}",
"23*9/STKPWA-L": "{:fancytext_set:zalgo}"
}

Mode Notes

It’s worth noting that these modes will not always work with Plover’s orthography rules. Some modes will be more wrong than others.

The z̶͉a̕l̬ḡ͙o̕ m͏̎o̬̪d̜e̝̹ can also take two arguments for the minimum and maximum number of combining marks. Example {:fancytext_set:zalgo:10:15} for quite a lot of z͙͕̹̩̀͑ͮ̇̉ͣ̄͋̕ȃ̵̝͎̘̬͙̖̼͆ͤ̕͝ͅ l̵̤̟̜͎͍̠̭̽̿͂ͬͩ͜ģ̲͈͍̔ͩ̀ͣͬ̉ͨ̕̚͝o̴̢̓̓ͦ̈́̂̆͛ͭͣ. For reference the default is min=1, max=3.

You may want the 　ｆｕｌｌ　ｗｉｄｔｈ　mode to use a full-width space. This can be done by setting space in the same entry: {:fancytext_set:fullwidth}{MODE:SET_SPACE:　}. If you do this you’ll probably also want to add {MODE:RESET} to your entry which turns off the mode.

This trick can also be applied to the upside down mode. Include unicode 202e (right to left mark) as well as a space character for um, a good time. You’ll definitely want {MODE:RESET} on this one, and you might want to add unicode 202d (left to right mark) to it as well. You don’t want to use these marks anywhere where text needs to be precisely correct, but should be fine in many places. I’ve not included it as part of the mode because it is definitely an acquired taste and can end up with you having text backwards after you turn the mode off

Contributing

Want a new mode? Having problems?

Head to the open source repository

Feel free to:

• Raise an issue

• Open a pull request, new modes accepted!