Re: [NTLK] Taking notes on Newton

From: Adrian Morrison (Sage4_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 10:50:56 EDT


you could use graphiti for the newton instead you could download it in=20=

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On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 08:07 AM, Karel Jansens wrote:

>
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 23:08, Jesse Garnier wrote:
>> Stephen Swift (aka Burnum) wrote not long ago (4/21/02 4:44 PM):
>>> I have a MP 120 and really am disappointed at it's handwriting
>>> recognition. I believe it's Newton OS 2.0. I can write much faster
>>> with pen/paper and I can only get 90% accuracy. My problem is my
>>> scrawl is a cross between prin=3D t
>>> and cursive. My letters looks like printed letters but I rarely =
pick
>>> up th=3D e
>>> pen and the Newton gets confused when I select "printing" but if I
>>> choose cursive, it really has trouble interpreting the letters. =
Does
>>> anyone have any tips? Or should I just upgrade to a MP 2100?
>>
>> A 2100 would be much, much better, but even it can't work miracles.
>>
>> I don't use HWR for most of my notes because *I* can barely go back =
and
>> read what I wrote, yet alone expect my Newt to be able to translate
>> them.
>>
>> A good rule of thumb is that to expect good HWR, write as though =
you're
>> writing for someone else to read.
>>
>> If I follow that rule, for instance when I compose e-mail, I can =
still
>> print briskly and reach near-perfect recognition. (Most problems are
>> with caps/no caps and apostrophes. Darn 'em.)
>>
> I have just about 100% recognition on my Ump2k using printed =
characters,
> and between 95 and 99% using cursive. And most of that is in Dutch!=20
> (many
> many thanks to Paul Guyot who put the Dutch dictionaries on his =
site!!!)
>
> The biggest problem for me was the Dutch 'ij'; it is sort of an extra
> vowel in Dutch and I am used to writing it in one go, even in printed
> text. Unfortunately, the Newton then will insist that it is in fact a=20=

> '=FF'.
> That is the only thing that required some User Retraining.
>
> Surprisingly, my Newton won't complain if I occasionally forget to =
lift
> the stylus beween two characters (like between the 'h' and 'e' in=20
> 'the'),
> it just doesn't like my 'ij''s.
>
> --
> Karel Jansens
> kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be
>
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>
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