S*ELTD vs SELTD for "settled"

[paulfioravanti]

The stroke entry for the word "settled" in Plover and Typey Type is S*ELTD. The word "settled" can also be stroked more easily without the asterisk as SELTD (which I found out by accident).

However, there is no specified entry for this stroke in any dictionary in Typey Type or Plover. Is there a reason for this that you can think of? If not, would this entry be worth adding to the Typey Type dictionaries as an improvement on the Plover entry?

[didoesdigital]

@paulfioravanti It looks like SELTD is using Plover's suffix keys, Plover's orthography English rules, and Plover's orthography translation.

The suffix key -D will automatically append "ed" using "-D": "{^ed}", when tucked into an existing entry. Given the entry, "SELT": "settle", I would expect adding "D" to produce something like settle{^ed}.

Then, using Plover's orthography rules, the second "e" is removed to give us "settled" as intended.

I've added some explicit entries for settled, settling, and settles to improve look ups in Typey Type.

Generally I try to limit the condensed-strokes.json dictionary to entries that work from a combination of existing entries like "TEFT" and "TEFT/-G" where "TEFT" exactly matches "test" and "-G" is "ing". In this case, "settled" depends on the orthography rules for English and couldn't work by strokes alone. I think this is near enough though.

[didoesdigital]

Thanks for highlighting this @paulfioravanti. Please let me know if any of that doesn't make sense.

[paulfioravanti]

Thanks for the detailed explanation, @didoesdigital. That helps a lot!