Chapter 1 guide: "PHREU" doesn't translate to "pli"

[tomklino]

2 day beginner question :)

I installed plover and the lapwing plugin, following the chapter 1 guide to type the word "complicated" - when I type the stroke PHREU it outputs PHREU into the document. According to the guide it should type "pli". I'm afraid I may have installed something wrong. What might I be missing?

[aerickt]

This table represents sounds, not spelled letters:

When writing words with multiple strokes, each stroke represents a sound (not necessarily a group of letters). So sometimes individual strokes aren't defined by themselves, but entire outline is. PHREU isn't defined as anything, so you get the raw steno when you try to write it.

In your case, you wrote KOPL/PHREU, which resulted in "come PHREU". However, when you finish the outline by writing KAEUT, Plover will backspace the last 7 characters and finish the word. With these multistroke outlines, you just need to write the whole thing to get the desired output.

[tomklino]

Thanks! (<- I wrote this in steno)