[WriteLog] Request for additional functionality - CW numeric abbreviations

[Bob Henderson]

Writelog is a really great contesting program.  I have used nothing else for
3 years now.  Wayne's continuing development of the program will hopefully
ensure that it stays where it belongs at the forefront of contesting.

This is a request for new functionality to be provided within Writelog in
the sending of CW numeric exchanges.

Currently the use of standard numeric abbreviations (Cut numbers ?) in
sending serial number exchanges is limited to leading zeros only.  These
being sent as T.  This deployment provides only token benefit, speeding up
just the first nine contacts of a contest.

The use of abbreviated 9 (N) and 0 (T) throughout contest exchanges has been
the norm for decades.  The unnecessary use of non abbreviated numerals is
pedestrian and considered by many as a display of incompetence.

Ideally, Writelog would have a switch to enable abbreviated numerals in all
exchange fields sent, EXCEPT for the call field.  Behind this the user would
be able to select which numerals would be abbreviated. 0 (T), 1 (A), 9 (N)
etc.  However, implementing the switch such that it can be configurable to
this extent might involve a lot of work.

A less than ideal implementation, which would nonetheless provide a
significant leap forward would be the implementation of a user selectable
switch which would cause the 9 in all numeric exchanges to be sent as N and
the zero as T.  Once again not when the numeral is in the call field.

A fundamental objectives of all contest exchanges are speed and accuracy.
The absence of this functionality is a drag on CW exchange rate within WL.

Implementation of this functionality in Writelog would make an already great
program much better.  Might it be possible this could be done?

73

Bob 5B4AGN, P3F, ZC4ZM