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I’ve been working with userscripts for quite some time, little pieces of Javascript code that you can run yourself on any website. Earlier I wrote an article on this blog about my userscript for the classification lists of the Intersteno Internet Keyboarding Competitions.
Now I’ve also written a small script for the Taki applet, which is used in the competitions themselves (both the annual Intersteno multilingual competition and the national competitions of the national Intersteno groups), out of frustration with a certain aspect of the applet, namely the sudden ‘jumping’ of lines while you are in the middle of a line.
A description of the problem can be found in my earlier post Nooit meer een regel overslaan (in Dutch). After publication of said article the problem seemed to be solved, but unfortunately it has returned (for a while now). I can’t prevent the text from suddenly jumping with a userscript, but what I can do is draw a helper line on the screen. Tryouts with a few test subjects have shown that this can be a great help in preventing unintentional line skips.
If you want to use the script or just check it out, you need a userscript browser extension like Tampermonkey, the world’s most popular userscript manager. Then you can download and install my userscript. If you don’t like it, you can easily remove or disable it.
The Tampermonkey software can be found at www.tampermonkey.net. My userscript, called Taki_Helper_Line, can be found at openuserjs.org.
