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GNU Typist (also called gtypist) is a universal typing tutor. You can learn
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correct typing and improve your skills by practicing its exercises on a
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regular basis. Its main features are:
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- It is free software released under the GNU General Public License. In
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addition, it is an official program of the GNU project.
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- It comes with several typing tutorials: in Czech, English (Qwerty and Dvorak
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keyboard), Russian and Spanish, as well as simpler exercices in German,
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French and Norwegian.
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- It interprets a simple and intuitive scripting language that describes typing
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tutorials. You can easily modify existing tutorials or create new ones
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according to your needs.
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- It supports internationalization and already has an interface in Czech,
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English, Finnish, French, German and Spanish.
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- Users can navigate through lessons through an easy to use arrow key based
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menu interface. 'vi' up, down, left and right keys can be used too!
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- Thanks to its execution in text mode with the curses library, it can be
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compiled and used on several operating systems, in particular on GNU/Linux
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and GNU/HURD, on several variants of Unix, as well as on Windows/DOS with
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the DJGPP compiler and the PDCURSES library.
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