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|Welcome to the '''Spoken Tutorial''' on '''Customizing KTouch'''.

|*Create a lecture.

* Customize Ktouch.

* Create your own keyboard.  

|Here, we are using '''Ktouch 1.7.1''' on '''Ubuntu Linux 11.10'''.  

|Notice that the '''Level''' displays 3.  

|That is because we were in level 3 when we closed Ktouch.  

|We shall now learn to create a new '''lecture'''.  

|Here we create new set of characters that can be displayed in the '''Teacher’s Line'''.  

|From the main menu, select '''File''' and click '''Edit Lecture'''.  

|The '''Open Lecture File''' dialogue box appears.  

|Now, select the '''Create New Lecture''' option and click '''OK'''.

|The '''KTouch Lecture Editor''' dialogue box appears.

|In the '''Title''' '''field''', select and delete the name "A default lecture" and type "My New Training Lecture".  

|The '''Level Editor''' displays the '''Lecture Level'''.  

|Click inside the '''Level Editor''' box.  

|Now, under '''Data of Level 1''', in the '''New Characters in this Level''' field, enter the symbols ampersand, star, and dollar.

|Notice that these characters are displayed in the first line of the '''Level Editor''' box.  

|In the '''Level Data''' field, first select and delete the text displayed.  

|Now under the '''Level Editor''' box, click on the Plus sign. What happened?  

|A second line comprising alphabets appears in the 'Level Editor' box.  

|Let’s select the second line in the 'Level Editor' box.  

|The '''Data of Level''' field now displays 2.

|In the '''New Characters in this Level''' field, enter fj.  

|In the '''Level Data''' field, enter fj five times.  

|You can create as many levels as you need in your typing lesson.  

|Similarly, you can create as many levels as you want in your typing lesson.  

|Click the '''Save''' icon.

|The '''Save Training Lecture – KTouch''' dialogue box appears.  

|In the '''Name''' field, enter "New Training Lecture".  

|In the '''Filter''' drop down list, click the triangle.  

|Select '''KTouch Lecture Files star.(dot) ktouch.xml''' within brackets as the format for the file.   

|Browse to the Desktop to save the file there. Click '''Save'''.

|The '''KTouch Lecture Editor''' dialogue box now displays the name "New Training Lecture".  

|Let us close the '''KTouch Lecture Editor''' dialogue box.  

|From the main menu, select '''File''' and then click '''Open Lecture'''.  

|The '''Select Training Lecture File''' dialogue appears.

|Browse to the Desktop and select '''New Training Lecture.ktouch.xml'''.  

|Notice that the symbols &, *, and $ are displayed in the 'Teacher’s line'. Let’s start typing.  

|We have created our own '''lecture''' and used it as a typing lesson!  

|To go back to the KTouch typing lessons from the Main menu, select '''File''', click '''Open Lecture'''. Browse the flowing folder path  

|'''Root->usr->share->kde4->apps->Ktouch''' and select '''english.ktouch.xml'''.

|For example, when you type a character that is not displayed in the 'Teacher’s Line', the 'Student line' turns red.  

|From the main menu, select '''Settings''', and click '''Configure – KTouch'''.  

|The '''Configure – KTouch''' dialogue box appears.  

|In the 'Configure – KTouch' dialogue box, click '''Color Settings'''.  

|The 'Color Settings' details appear.  

|Check the '''Use custom colour''' for typing line box.

|In the '''Teacher’s line''' field, click on the color box next to the '''Text''' field.

|The '''Select-Color''' dialogue box is displayed.  

|In the '''Select-Color''' dialogue box, click green. Click '''OK'''.  

|The '''Configure – KTouch''' dialogue box appears. Click '''Apply'''. Click '''OK'''.  

|The characters in the 'Teacher’s Line' have changed to green!

|From the main menu, select '''File''' and click '''Edit Keyboard Layout'''.  

|The '''Open Keyboard File''' dialogue box appears.

|In the '''Open Keyboard File''' dialogue box, select '''Open a default keyboard'''.

|The list of keyboards is displayed. Select '''en.keyboard.xml'''. Click '''OK'''.  

|The '''KTouch Keyboard Editor''' dialogue box appears.

|In the '''Keyboard Title''' field, enter "Training Keyboard".  

|Select "en" from the '''Language id''' drop-down list.  

|Click '''Set Keyboard Font'''.  

|The '''Select Font – KTouch''' dialogue box '''window''' appears.  

|In the '''Select Font - KTouch''' dialogue box, let us select '''Ubuntu''' as the Font, '''Italic''' as the Font Style, and 11 as the '''Size'''.  

|Now click '''OK'''.  

|To save the keyboard, click '''Save Keyboard As'''.

|The '''Save Keyboard – KTouch''' dialogue box appears.

|Browse the flowing folder path:

|'''Root->usr->share->kde4->apps->Ktouch''' and select '''english.ktouch.xml'''.

|In the '''Name''' field, enter '''Practice.keyboard.xml'''. Click '''Save'''.

|The file is saved in the format ‘<name>.keyboard.xml’. Click '''Close'''.

|Can you use the newly keyboard immediately? No.

|You will have to mail it to the 'kde-edu' mailing id. It will then be included in the next version of KTouch.  

|In this tutorial, we learnt to create a lecture for training and modify colour settings.  

|We also learnt to open an existing keyboard layout, modify it and create our own keyboard.  

| Make changes to colours and font level changes to keyboard. Check the results.  

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