Human-Machine Grammar Dictionary - L


Last (Line) (action) puts the cursor at the beginning of the line above the cursor. Keyboard Equivalent: Home Up. Examples: "Last Line"; "Last Paste". See Also: Another, New

Layer (object) indicates a layer of delimiters like parentheses or braces. Used primarily in programming 1. Selects text between delimiters. Example: "This Layer"; "Layer Delete" 2. moves the cursor after the next delimiter to the right of the cursor. Example "3 Layer". See Also: Layer Up, Layers, Before, After, Befores, Afters, Line, Lines, Line Ups, Graph, Graphs, Graph Up, Graph Ups

Layer Up (object) indicates a layer of delimiters like parentheses or braces. Used primarily in programming. Moves the cursor before the next delimiter to the left of the cursor. Example "3 Layer". See Also: Layer, Layers Before, After, Befores, Afters, Line, Lines, Line Ups, Graph, Graphs, Graph Up, Graph Ups

Layers (object) indicates a layer of delimiters like parentheses or braces. Used primarily in programming. Selects text between delimiters. Examples: "4 Layers"; "3 Layers Short" selects text but not delimiters. See Also: Before, After, Befores, Afters, Line, Lines, Line Ups, Graph, Graphs, Graph Up, Graph Ups

Left (modifier) 1. indicates direction. Examples: "8 Left", "Drag 5 Left"; "Mouse 7 Left" 2. Indicates the right side of an object like the taskbar or system tray, Examples: "Window 3 Left"; "Tray 1 Left". See Also: Lefts, Right, Rights, Up, Down

Lefts (object) indicates letters to the right of the cursor. Plural even if only one letter is being selected. Keyboard equivalent: "Shift+Left". Examples: "3 Lefts"; "2 Lefts Delete"; "3rd Word 3 Lefts Bold". See Also: Left, Rights, Befores, Afters, Ups, Downs, Lines, Line Ups, Graphs, Sentences, 1-100

Letter (phrase mode) 1. types one to three letters. Examples: "Letter a"; "Letter a b c". See Also, Short, Spell, Cap, Caps 2. selects the letter after the cursor. Examples: "This Letter"; "Letter Blue"; "Letter Delete" 3. selects a letter based on its position within a document. Examples: "Letter 3" selects the third letter in a document 4. used with ordinal numbers to select a line relative to other objects. Examples: "4th Letter"; "2nd Line 1st Letter"; "Graph 3rd Letter"; "2nd Line 1st Letter 3 Letters". See Also: Line, Word, Sentence, Graph, 1-100, 1st-40th

Letters (phrase mode) selects a string of letters to the left of the cursor. Plural even if only one character is being selected. Can also include "Space". Examples: "Letters d e"; "Letters b a Space ". See Also: Chars, Numbers, Symbols

Line (Down) (object) indicates a line 1. selects the line of text nearest the cursor. Examples: "This Line"; "Line Delete" 2. moves the cursor by line relative to the original cursor position. Examples: "3 Line" moves the cursor to the third line below the original cursor position, "1 Line" See Also: Line Up, Lines 3. selects a line within a paragraph. Examples: "4th Line"; "2nd Line"; "2nd Graph 3rd Line" 4. moves the cursor by line relative to the entire document. Examples: "Line 3" moves the cursor to the beginning of the third line in a document. See Also: Lines, Letter, Word, Line Up, Sentence, Sentence Up, Graph, Graph Up, Screen, Screen Up, 1-100, 1st-40th, Another Line, Last Line, Next Line, New Line, Insert Line. Note: "Line" differs from "Down" because "Line " moves whole lines down and so the cursor is left at the beginning of a line, while "Down" moves down beginning from the cursor position

Lines (object) selects one or more lines below the cursor; selects lines. Note that this command selects whole lines in contrast to "1-100 Downs"; which selects lines relative to the cursor. Plural even if only one line is being selected. Examples: "3 Lines"; "2 Lines Delete"; "1 2 Lines Cut"; "3rd Graph 3 Lines Bold". See Also: Line, Rights, Lefts, Befores, Afters, Downs, Ups, Line Ups, Sentences, Sentence Ups, Graph, Graph Ups, 1-100

Line Up (object) indicates a line above the cursor. Moves the cursor by line relative to the original cursor position. Example: "3 Line Up" moves the cursor to the third line above the original cursor position. See Also: Line Ups, Line, Right, Left, After, Before, Sentence, Graph, Graph Up, Screen, 1-100. Note: "Line Up" differs from "Up" because "Line Up" moves whole lines up and so is left at the beginning of a line, while "Up" moves up beginning from the cursor position

Line Ups (object) selects one or more lines above the cursor. Note that this command selects whole lines in contrast to "1-100 Ups"; which selects lines relative to the cursor. Plural even if only one line is being selected. Examples: "3 Line Ups"; "3 Line Ups Before"; "2 Line Ups Delete". See Also: Rights, Lefts, Befores, Afters, Downs, Ups, Lines, Sentences, Sentence Ups, Graph, Graph Ups, 1-100

List (modifier) refers to boilerplate material in list form. Examples: "20 List" returns the numbers 1-20, one on each line; "Months List" returns the months of the year, one on each line. See Also: Path, Paste, Address, Code, Email, Graphic, List, Mix, Number, Path, Picture, Spreadsheet, Sound, Table, Template, Text, Web

Local (modifier) indicates the current window; used to avoid ambiguity. Example: "Local 10 by 10" positions the cursor relative to the current window rather than to the screen

Log (modifier) indicates a logon and password name for a Web site or computer. Example: "John Log", "New York Times Log", "Bigfoot Log"

Long (modifier) 1. distinguishes longer written forms from symbols, numbers and abbreviations. Examples: "3 Long" returns "three" rather than "3"; "Star Long" returns "Star" rather than "*"; "Versus Long" returns "Versus" rather than "vs."; "DOE Long" types "Department of Energy (DOE)" 2. distinguishes a written word from a one-word command. Examples: "Enter Long" returns "enter"; "Backspace Long" returns "backspace" 3. distinguishes a written word from commonly misrecognized commands. Example: "Up 2 Long" returns the common text phrase "up to" rather than issuing the common command "Up 2". See Also: Short, Long 1-10, Short 1-10, No Apostrophe, No Hyphen. Note the long and short modifiers are often not needed because speech recognition programs are relatively good at choosing the right word from context and will get even better over time. These are meant to give the user a sure way to evoke a specific word when context does not work well 4. increases a selection by one character on each side. Examples: "Open Brace through Close Brace Long" selects characters between braces plus the spaces on either side of the braces. See Also: Long 1-10, Short, Short 1-10

Long 1-10 (modifier) 1. distinguishes homophones. Homophones are arranged alphabetically from one to ten. Examples: "For Long 1" returns "For"; "For Long 2" returns "Fore"; and For Long 3" returns "Four"; "Pair Long 1" returns "Pair"; "Pair Long 2" returns "Pare"; "Pair Long 3" returns "Pear"; "DOE Long 1" types "Department of Energy"; "DOE Long 2" types "Department of Energy (DOE)". See Also: Short, Long, Short 1-10, No Apostrophe, No Hyphen. 2. increases a selection by n characters on each side. Examples: "Open Brace through Close Brace Long 2" selects from the second character before the open brace through the second character after the close brace. See Also: Long, Short, Short 1-10

Long All (modifier) returns a list of all a word's homophones. Examples: "For Long All" returns "1. For, 2. Fore, 3. Four"; "Pair Long All" returns "1. Pair, 2. Pare, 3. Pear". See Also Short All