Thanks, Morris. Nice to know two South Africans can be such serious thinkers on the topic of XyWrite. I've incorporated your excellent material in my personal SPL file, and will now take time to learn and understand your logic. Do stay in touch. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Morris Krok [SMTP:essence@xxxxxxxx] Sent: 03 June 2000 19:33 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx Subject: shorthand from Morris Krok - file short.example essence@xxxxxxxx Before sending this message my computer was cleared of the kak virus. I have a suspicion that it was sent to me from New York. I am also sending this e-mail in plain text, so I hope that everyone will be able to read it without fear of infection. To speed up the input of data, the shorthand facility of XyWrite should be used. My version of XyWrite iii is 3.57. The qwerty keyboard is the one I use but dvorak should not be a problem. In the keyboard file with the extension .kbd, place the AR function in key 57 (space bar) in the normal table as well as in table=caps. Produce a shorthand file with ;sp; as the first line. The one I use is suppose to contain 800 of the most used words in the English language. This file can be automatically loaded by including it in the startup.int file. The keyboard file should also be loaded in this manner. A copy of my shorthand file is included at the end of this e-mail. An interesting aspect is that the abbreviation will be expandable even if a punctuation mark is placed at the end of it; for instance, "bdy," will be expanded as "body," and "bdy" without the punctuation mark will be expanded just as "body". My Shorthand file: ;SP; abo about abv above ac acid acc accede accnt accountant acco account acd accord aci acid ack acknowledge acmps accomplished acn action acp accept acu acute acv active ad add adc advice admn adamant adp adopt adrs address adt adult adtn addition adv advance advb advisable advi adviser aero aeroplane af after affe affects afn afternoon afw afterwards ag again agno agnostic agr agree agst against ahv achieve ai air ak ask al able alch alchemy alg along alge allege alm almost alo allow alr already als also alt although alto altogether altv alternatively alw always alwn allowance amg among amgs amongst amo amount amu amuse ani animal anks ankles ano another ans answer anyt anything apl apply aplt application app appreciate apr appear ar area arn around arr arrange asa asanas asc ascend ascn ascendancy assi assistance asts assists aten attend atk attack atm attempt atn attain atnt attention aug august auth authority av above avl avail aw away awar awareness awk 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