8.12

     Apparently at some point, I decided it was okay to define some "–ness" words using –NS rather than *NS. I realized that the other day, and I decided to go back and fix all of those entries.  It turns out I had 1,600 "–ness" entries, and about a third of them didn’t have asterisks, so yesterday I spent 45 minutes going through and fixing that.  I also looked at the next section of the VITAC book, which just happened to be alphabets.

     I was just thinking that I needed to really get in there and fix my alphabets, so, then of course I had to.  I spent about an hour evaluating which ones I needed and how I was going to define them.  I wound up with five. The first two I already used and didn’t change. An uppercase and a lowercase way to type the letters in my global window (or anywhere I happen to be, theoretically, but the global window is the only place I use it). Those are A*RBGS and A-PG, respectively.

     I also needed one for capital letters with periods, so that was easy, A*FPLT.  Then I did one for standalone capital letters, A*, and one to just attach a lowercase letter to the last word, A*PG.  I decided that I’ll use a separate stroke to go back and stitch a word, make it lowercase, or start it with a capital letter.  I haven’t figured out how I’m going to do that yet, though.