[markitzero]

Those shortcuts are helpful, thanks.

Well, the one task I probably do most frequently — as I suspect would be the case for other tinkerers — is simply the Start Plotting! function (aka AxiDraw Controls…[plot tab]…Apply) But unless my most recent command was to start a plot (it usually isn’t), Alt-Q usually won’t help.

I opened the share/keys/defaults.xml file and tried to mentally parse what was going on; is there a simple 1 or 2 lines I can add (presumably some “<bind…” function?) that would create a keyboard shortcut to start a plot?

[markitzero]

Thanks for the reply; I have indeed looked through the Hershey Advanced stroke font options and played with them a bit (including testing some of the ‘defect-adding’ tools). Have you considered adding multiple glyphs per character as one of the ‘defect’ options available in the standard AxiDraw/Inkscape package? IMO that’s the prime culprit that makes them still seem somewhat un-humanlike, and I would think that that wouldn’t be, relatively speaking, all that complicated to add. Looking for example at the “EMS Tech” Hershey Advanced stroke font — that’s a neat, arguably human-like font but wouldn’t simply having, say, 3 glyphs per character get you like 90% of the way there to being a credible reproduction of handwriting? It’s cursive, so none of the letters touch each other, so it seems like simply adding 2-3 subtle variants for each letter would be relatively straight-forward. Is that something you’ve considered for a future addition? (Or is it perhaps not as straight-forward as I might think?)

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