Lowercase Alphabet

So I have lots of alphabets and they are all uppercase (stitched alphabet, regular alphabet, period alphabet, etc.)

Here's how I do them:

A* = [glue]A

A-6789 = [delete space]A   (this comes in handy when attaching words to the end of a previous word.  I don't have my security key to see how it's actually defined in my dictionary -- I may edit this post tomorrow when I can look that up).

A-FRPBLGTS = -A  (stitching)

A-FPLT = A.

So, how/what can I do to make a lowercase alphabet?  What do you use?

I realized, obviously, when I finger-spell a word it stands out so much because it's in all CAPS and I realtime in standard font.  I'm trying to take away that obviousness by spelling in lowercase when necessary.

Any pointers?

THANKS!

Hi,

I use the letter + rbgs for glued lowercase.  (ARBGS, PWRBGS, etc.)

I use letter + fplt for glued uppercase.

Hi, Sarah.  For fingerspelling words so the look like a correctly translated work, I use a lower case glued alphabet.  A-RBGS = a, PW-RBGS = c, etc.  I use an upper case alphabet of A-FPLT = A, PW-FPLT = B, etc.  If the word starts with a small letter, I do a force space stroke before the first letter.

I'll be interested in knowing how others do it, too.  Karen

I spell everything with my regular flagged (-FPLT) alphabet and then use macros to change the word to stitched with hyphens or stitched with periods.      If it is just a regular word or name, I can write the word in steno instead of fingerspelling it and then activate the hyphen or period stitching macro.  Makes it really quick.

However, when I am captioning in mixed case I do use -FPLD to flag lowercase letters.   I like it because I use FPLT to flag uppercase, so all I have to do is move my pinky out to the D.     I have also been told that if I hit my stitch macro stroke twice it will convert the word to lowercase, but I haven't really done that on a job yet.  It does work, though.

Jill,

You've inspired me.  I've always used one alphabet that put spaces between the letters, and I just fixed things in editing.  So today I went through and changed all my letter entries to, for example, {glue}A.  Is this how yours are defined?

Then I created macros to do the stitching and period thing, as you said you do.  Cool!  I like it because I don't have to change my writing.  Question though.  I was hoping to create a macro to search backwards for the Glue command so that I didn't have to invoke the macro immediately, but CC doesn't show the Glue codes in Reveal Codes, so I can't search for them.  Just wondering if you have to invoke your macro immediately or if you're doing things differently.

Thanks.

Hey, John!

I've been out of town and tried to answer this from my cell phone, but guess I did something wrong.  

Anyway, yes, I do have my flagged alphabet defined for all the letters to "glue."  

Having a macro that would search backwards for the last "glued" entry and make the change would be awesome.    Unfortunately as a captioner, it would not benefit me personally!  However, when I was on StenoCat and working as a real CR,  their software DID work that way.  I particularly liked it for number conversion because I could write a number and as long as I had not written another number in the meantime, I could convert it to time or whatever I needed as soon as I had time to hit the macro, which might not be until a paragraph or so later!