GNU Typist has a new maintainer who released version 2.8.5 last month, available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/.
+*gtypist-2.8.5 (10 May 2011) + + 10 May 2011; Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org> +gtypist-2.8.5.ebuild: + Version bump (thanks to Nick Bowler, bug 365893) +