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posted by praise_the_sun, Mon 03 Feb 2025 02:58:06 PM UTC
This is a minor release
Changes in 2.10.1:
- update the Spanish translation
- fix in gtypits.typ, to jump from the global menu to the menus of the
individual lessons
- small fix to u.typ lesson
- remove cmdline.c and cmdline.h files from the git repo; this will
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posted by praise_the_sun, Mon 23 Dec 2024 10:02:58 PM UTC
This is a major release
Changes in 2.10:
- new welcome screen
- new P lesson series for programmers
- fixes for various lessons
- new Romanian lessons
- expand the S lesson series with a new quotation and a few more passages from Shakespeare
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posted by edam, Tue 12 Aug 2014 09:06:05 AM UTC
This is a bug fix release.
Changes in 2.9.5:
- improved CPM/WPM calculation precision
- fix for Colemak lesson, thanks to Ashley Whetter
- fix for Q series, thanks to Olu Niyi-Awosusi
- fix for Colemak lesson (updated top 1000 most frequently used words)
- updated simplified Chinese translation, thanks to Wei Mingzhi
Sources for this release can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/gtypist-2.9.5.tar.gz
posted by edam, Sun 02 Feb 2014 01:31:05 PM UTC
This is a bug fix release.
Changes in 2.9.4:
- fix for Colemak lesson, thanks to Ashley Whetter
- libintl is now an external requirement
- libtinfo is now linked against, as required
- minor documentation fixes
Sources for this release can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/gtypist-2.9.4.tar.gz
posted by edam, Fri 07 Jun 2013 01:36:18 PM UTC
This is a bug fix release.
Changes in 2.9.3:
- fix for Alt+some key being treated as ESCAPE and clearing drills (reported by Chris Jones)
- updates to the ktouch lesson import script, based on a patch submitted by Alexei Matveev)
- updates to lessons imported from ktouch (fixes issue with lines over 80 characters causing errors, amongst
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posted by edam, Mon 17 Dec 2012 05:12:41 PM UTC
This is a bug fix release.
Changes in 2.9.2:
- fix collision between unicode 0x107 (c with accent) and KEY_BACKSPACE (Reported by Kalthor)
- change documentation licence so that there are no invariant sections
Sources for this release can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/gtypist-2.9.2.tar.gz
posted by edam, Mon 28 Nov 2011 08:53:13 PM UTC
This is a bug fix release.
Changes in 2.9.1:
- Native Language Support added on Windows
- fixed support for UTF-8 on Windows
- re-added vim syntax highlighting and updated manual
- updated Polish translation, thanks to Jakub Bogusz
- several fixes to the build system
Sources for this release can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/gtypist-2.9.1.tar.gz
posted by edam, Mon 31 Oct 2011 11:14:16 PM UTC
This release contains several new features, the most important of which is surely full UTF-8 support. Most GNU/Linux distributions now come with terminals set to use UTF-8. This should fix the configuration problems that non-US-ASCII users have been having. [...]
posted by edam, Mon 03 Oct 2011 01:06:39 AM UTC
We're pleased to announce GNU Typist 2.9beta1.
This is a test release and should not be used in a production environment. The purpose of this test release is to get a broader range of people to try out the next version of gtypist before it is released properly.
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posted by edam, Fri 08 Apr 2011 03:13:25 PM UTC
This is a bug fix release.
Changes in 2.8.5:
- Fixed an issue that prevented installation.
- Corrected a minor typo in a lesson.
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