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11944N/A<refentry id="dasher-1">

15995N/A<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

11944N/A<refmiscinfo class="date">14 Nov 2007</refmiscinfo>

11944N/A<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>

11944N/A<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

11944N/A<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

11944N/A<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

11944N/A</refmeta>

15995N/A<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>

11944N/Agraphical predictive text entry system

11944N/A</primary></indexterm><refnamediv id="dasher-1-name">

15995N/A<refname>&cmd;</refname><refpurpose>

11944N/Agraphical predictive text entry system

11944N/A</refpurpose></refnamediv>

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</cmdsynopsis></refsynopsisdiv>

11944N/A<refsect1 id="dasher-1-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

11944N/A<para>

15995N/A<command>&cmd;</command> is an information-efficient text-entry interface,

15995N/Adriven by natural continuous pointing gestures. <command>&cmd;</command> is a

15995N/Acompetitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used.

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A<para>

15995N/AAfter startup, <command>&cmd;</command> will present the user with a window

15995N/Acontaining two major sections. The top portion is the edit box - text entered

15995N/Avia <command>&cmd;</command> will appear here, and the text may also be edited

15995N/Adirectly. The bottom portion is the main &cmd; interface and will display a

15995N/Ablank background with a column of letters on the right hand side. Clicking the

15995N/Amouse button will start the model, and the screen will zoom towards the point

15995N/Aunderneath the mouse pointer. To select a letter, move the mouse pointer into

15995N/Ait and watch how it zooms underneat the crosshair. Within the selected letter,

15995N/Aa new column of letters will appear. Move the pointer over one of these

15995N/Aletters to select it as the next letter. To correct mistakes, move the mouse

15995N/Apointer to the left of the crosshair and <command>&cmd;</command> will zoom out

15995N/Aallowing you to select new letters.

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A<para>

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</para>

11944N/A

11944N/A<screen>

11944N/A <command>iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 trainingfile</command>

11944N/A</screen>

11944N/A

11944N/A</refsect1>

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<varlistentry>

11944N/A<term><option>-a</option>, <option>-appstyle=<replaceable>style</replaceable></option></term>

11944N/A<listitem><para>

11944N/ASpecify application <replaceable>style</replaceable> (traditional, direct, compose,

11944N/Aor fullscreen).

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A<varlistentry>

11944N/A<term><option>-o</option>, <option>-options</option></term>

11944N/A<listitem><para>

11944N/AOverride stored options.

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A</variablelist></refsect1>

11944N/A<refsect1 id="dasher-1-exam"><title>&exam-tt;</title>

15995N/A<example role="example"><title>Launching <command>&cmd;</command>

11944N/A</title>

11944N/A<para><screen>example% <userinput>&cmd;</userinput></screen></para>

11944N/A</example>

11944N/A</refsect1>

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</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A<varlistentry><term><returnvalue>>0</returnvalue></term><listitem><para>Application

11944N/Aexited with failure</para>

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A</variablelist></refsect1>

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/A<varlistentry>

11944N/A<term><filename>/usr/bin/&cmd;</filename></term>

11944N/A<listitem><para>

11965N/AExecutable for &cmd;

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A<varlistentry>

11944N/A<term><filename>/usr/share/dasher</filename></term>

11944N/A<listitem><para>

11944N/ASystem-wide configuration files.

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A<varlistentry>

11944N/A<term><filename>~/.dasher</filename></term>

11944N/A<listitem><para>

11944N/AUser configuration files.

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A<para>

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</para>

11944N/A<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

11944N/A<varlistentry>

11944N/A<term><filename>alphabet*.xml</filename></term>

11944N/A<listitem><para>

11944N/AThe files defining the alphabets available to &cmd;

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A<varlistentry>

11944N/A<term><filename>colour*.xml</filename></term>

11944N/A<listitem><para>

11944N/AThe files defining the colour schemes available to &cmd;

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A<varlistentry>

11944N/A<term><filename>train*.xml</filename></term>

11944N/A<listitem><para>

15995N/AThe files containing the training data used by <command>&cmd;</command>.

15995N/AThese are UTF-8 encoded text and should contain a representative sample of the

15995N/Arelevant language.

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A</listitem></varlistentry>

11944N/A</variablelist></refsect1>

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>

11944N/A<informaltable frame="all">

11944N/A<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

11944N/A<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

11944N/A<thead>

11944N/A<row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center"

11944N/Avalign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

11944N/A</thead>

11944N/A<tbody>

18745N/A<row><entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>gnome/accessibility/dasher

11944N/A</para></entry></row>

11944N/A<row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry><entry

11944N/Acolname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry></row>

11944N/A</tbody>

11944N/A</tgroup>

11944N/A</informaltable>

11944N/A</refsect1>

11944N/A<refsect1 id="dasher-1-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

11944N/A<para>

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>

11944N/A<para>Latest version of the <citetitle>GNOME Desktop User Guide</citetitle> for your platform.</para>

11944N/A</refsect1>

11944N/A<refsect1 id="dasher-1-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

11944N/A<para>

11944N/AThe Dasher Project (dasher@mrao.phy.cam.ac.uk) -

11944N/A<literal>http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/</literal>

11944N/A</para>

11944N/A<para>

11944N/AUpdated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.

11944N/A</refsect1>

11944N/A</refentry>