eric enlightened, > There is a debian package called ... typist! It works OK, though it > has some bugs in some of the lessons: sometimes part of the previous > page remains on the screen. It was good enough for me to get the gist > of touch typing, I suppose the rest will be a matter of practice.
It also has a major conceptual flaw in how it advances characters. If you are asked to type abcdefg and instead type abccdefg That is not one error, but five Accordingly, at any error, you must stop typing, examine the screen to see where you landed in the sequence, and what the next character is. This isn't *as* bad a habit as looking at the keys, but I'd be hard pressed to think of any other worse ones to instill in a trainee Yeah, yeah, right a patch so that it can proceed with either the next character, or the character that was missed. Right after I get the rest of mailmerge working in lyx 1.1 and write a configuration database for kids games, dosemu, and wine . . . --
