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refentrytitle>dasher</
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refmiscinfo class="date">14 Nov 2007</
refmiscinfo>
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refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</
refmiscinfo>
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refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</
refmiscinfo>
11944N/A<
refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</
refmiscinfo>
11944N/A<
refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</
refmiscinfo>
11944N/A<
indexterm><
primary>dasher</
primary></
indexterm><
indexterm><
primary>
11944N/Agraphical predictive text entry system
11944N/A</
primary></
indexterm><
refnamediv id="dasher-1-name">
11944N/A<
refname>dasher</
refname><
refpurpose>
11944N/Agraphical predictive text entry system
11944N/A<
refsynopsisdiv id="dasher-1-synp"><
title>&synp-tt;</
title>
11944N/A<
cmdsynopsis><
command>&cmd;</
command>
11944N/A<
arg choice="opt"><
option>-appstyle=<
replaceable>style</
replaceable></
option></
arg>
11944N/A<
arg choice="opt"><
option>-options</
option></
arg>
11944N/A<
refsect1 id="dasher-1-desc"><
title>&desc-tt;</
title>
11944N/A&cmd; is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural
11944N/Acontinuous pointing gestures. &cmd; is a competitive text-entry system
11944N/Awherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used.
11944N/AAfter startup, &cmd; will present the user with a window
11944N/Acontaining two major sections. The top portion is the edit
11944N/Abox - text entered via &cmd; will appear here, and the text
11944N/Amay also be edited directly. The bottom portion is the main
11944N/A&cmd; interface and will display a blank background with a
11944N/Acolumn of letters on the right hand side. Clicking the mouse
11944N/Abutton will start the model, and the screen will zoom
11944N/Atowards the point underneath the mouse pointer. To select a
11944N/Aletter, move the mouse pointer into it and watch how it
11944N/Azooms underneat the crosshair. Within the selected letter, a
11944N/Anew column of letters will appear. Move the pointer over
11944N/Aone of these letters to select it as the next letter. To
11944N/Acorrect mistakes, move the mouse pointer to the left of the
11944N/Acrosshair and &cmd; will zoom out allowing you to select
11944N/ADasher requires that training files be in the UTF-8 format,
11944N/Awhereas most text files are likely to be in ISO-8859 format.
11944N/AThis doesn't matter for plain text, but accented characters
11944N/Aare encoded differently. In order to convert them, use the
11944N/A<
citerefentry><
refentrytitle>iconv</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>1</
manvolnum></
citerefentry>.
11944N/Aprogram. For instance, if your training file is in
11944N/AISO-8859-1 format (Western European), run
11944N/A <
command>iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 trainingfile</
command>
11944N/A<
refsect1 id="dasher-1-opts"><
title>&opts-tt;</
title>
11944N/A<
para>The following options are supported:</
para>
11944N/A<
variablelist termlength="medium">
11944N/A<
term><
option>-a</
option>, <
option>-appstyle=<
replaceable>style</
replaceable></
option></
term>
11944N/ASpecify application <
replaceable>style</
replaceable> (traditional, direct, compose,
11944N/A<
term><
option>-o</
option>, <
option>-options</
option></
term>
11944N/A<
refsect1 id="dasher-1-exam"><
title>&exam-tt;</
title>
11944N/A<
example role="example"><
title>Luanching &cmd;
11944N/A<
para><
screen>example% <
userinput>&cmd;</
userinput></
screen></
para>
11944N/A<
refsect1 id="dasher-1-exit"><
title>&exit-tt;</
title>
11944N/A<
para>The following exit values are returned:</
para>
11944N/A<
variablelist termlength="xtranarrow"><
varlistentry><
term><
returnvalue>0</
returnvalue></
term>
11944N/A<
listitem><
para>Application exited successfully</
para>
11944N/A<
varlistentry><
term><
returnvalue>>0</
returnvalue></
term><
listitem><
para>Application
11944N/A<
refsect1 id="dasher-1-file"><
title>&file-tt;</
title>
11944N/A<
para>The following files are used by this application:</
para>
11944N/A<
variablelist termlength="wholeline">
11944N/AExecutable for GNOME introductory information display.
11944N/ASystem-wide configuration files.
11944N/A<
term><
filename>~/.dasher</
filename></
term>
11944N/A&cmd; will utilise configuration from both the System-wide and
11944N/AUser configuration directories. Training text from both will be used, allowing
11944N/Ausers to add their own training data to the system wide data.
11944N/A<
variablelist termlength="wholeline">
11944N/A<
term><
filename>alphabet*.xml</
filename></
term>
11944N/AThe files defining the alphabets available to &cmd;
11944N/A<
term><
filename>colour*.xml</
filename></
term>
11944N/AThe files defining the colour schemes available to &cmd;
11944N/A<
term><
filename>train*.xml</
filename></
term>
11944N/AThe files containing the training data used by &cmd.
11944N/AThese are UTF-8 encoded text and should contain a
11944N/Arepresentative sample of the relevant language.
11944N/A<
refsect1 id="dasher-1-attr"><
title>&attr-tt;</
title>
11944N/A<
para>See <
olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><
citerefentry>
11944N/A<
refentrytitle>attributes</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>5</
manvolnum></
citerefentry></
olink>
11944N/Afor descriptions of the following attributes:</
para>
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tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><
colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">
11944N/A<
colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">
11944N/A<
row><
entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</
entry><
entry align="center" 11944N/Avalign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</
entry></
row>
11944N/A<
row><
entry><
para>Availability</
para></
entry><
entry><
para>SUNWgnome-a11y-dasher
11944N/A<
row><
entry colname="COLSPEC0"><
para>Interface stability</
para></
entry><
entry 11944N/Acolname="COLSPEC1"><
para>Volatile</
para></
entry></
row>
11944N/A<
refsect1 id="dasher-1-also"><
title>&also-tt;</
title>
11944N/A<!--Reference to another man page--> 11944N/A<!--Reference to a Help manual--> 11944N/A<
citerefentry><
refentrytitle>iconv</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>1</
manvolnum></
citerefentry>,
11944N/A<
citerefentry><
refentrytitle>attributes</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>5</
manvolnum></
citerefentry>,
11944N/A<
citerefentry><
refentrytitle>gnome-std-options</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>5</
manvolnum></
citerefentry>
11944N/A<
para>Latest version of the <
citetitle>GNOME Desktop User Guide</
citetitle> for your platform.</
para>
11944N/A<
refsect1 id="dasher-1-note"><
title>¬e-tt;</
title>
11944N/AThe Dasher Project (dasher@mrao.phy.cam.ac.uk) -
11944N/AUpdated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.