Extending KTouch
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Chapter 3. Extending KTouch

Creating your own lecture

You can easily create your own training lecture using the built-in KTouch lecture editor. When you select File->Edit Lecture... the “Open Request Dialog” will open and ask you to select a lecture. You can choose either edit the current lecture, any of the predefined lectures (if you have write access to the installation directoy) or create an empty lecture from scratch.

Creating a lecture

Let's assume you want to create a new lecture. There are a few guidelines you may want to consider:

  • For the first 20 keys or so, only add 2 keys@a time to a new level. Let the user practice the keys alone first in different combinations and then use the new keys in words and mixed with already known words.

  • Add@least a few levels to the lecture in order to allow the user to see some progress while training

  • Don't make the levels too long.

  • Try to increase the difficulty of the text gradually and test your text yourself.

  • After the first keys have been learned include a recap lecture.

Things to know about lectures

The lecture title is important for the quick-select menu entry in the training menu and for the statistics. The comment should be used to include information about the lecture author and source of lecture data if any.

For each level you can specify the new characters/keys in the lecture. The text you enter there will be shown as level information text in the top right info box of the KTouch main window.

You can also specify a default font for the lecture which will be used in the teacher's and student's line and of course in the edit lecture dialog using the Change Font... button.

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