GNU Typist 2.5 released

[Michael Opdenacker]

GNU Typist 2.5: minor feature enhancements

Highlights: Skipping lessons using "ESC", new interface messages in
French, fixes and improvements in lesson files.

NEWS file:

   * Allowed the user to skip an exercise or exit the lesson by pressing
     ESC twice (once to restart and then again at the beginning of the
     exercise to skip)
   * Added new switch --no-skip which prohibits the user from skipping
     exercises
   * Removed more occurrences of "Q: Press Y to continue, ..."
     following an exercise (because this is builtin since 2.4) in d.typ,
     r.typ, v.typ and esp.typ
   * Removed all occurrences of "Q: Press Y to cont..." following `T:' :
     It doesn't make sense to repeat a T:, the standard message "Press
     Enter to continue." is better (d.typ, v.typ, r.typ)
     (multi-page T:'s are the exception)
   * The last two changes make the lesson-files quite a bit simpler
   * Fixed errors in d.typ and esp.typ (see lessons/ChangeLog)
   * Renamed --wpmode to --word-processor
   * Added interface messages in French (using gtranslator)
   * Spanish interface updated by José Pelegrín <address@hidden>
   * Fixes for undefined symbols errors compiling on Unix systems (such
     as Solaris) when both curses and ncurses are installed.

Our next steps are to implement a GTK graphical interface to make the
program much more attractive. We also plan to ask teachers all around
the world to contribute new lessons under the GNU GPL license.

Cheers,

    Michael.

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Michael Opdenacker  address@hidden
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