Re: [NTLK] Taking notes on Newton - library catalog numbers and alt.rec

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 15:34:54 EST


On Thursday 14 March 2002 19:20, Jon Glass wrote:
> on 3/14/02 3:09 AM, Jim Witte at jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us wrote:
> > One problem I have is when I'm taking down a library catalog number
> > like QA76.F141.C88 or something like that. It almost never gets
> > recognized right, so I either have to write the QA (wait for it to be
> > recognized), write the 76. as a separate "word" and so on, or resort
> > to the onscreen keyboard. Would Paul's alt.rec package help with
> > this?
>
> I wouldn't wait for it to recognize. Simply write them as separate
> words. I'm sure it makes I more readable anyway. That is actually a good
> idea. I'm going to have to try it.

For cases like this it would be nice to have a button that allowed one to
switch instantaneously from cursive to printed output, without having to
go through all the slips.

It's probably already in some of those fancy packages a la Dashboard, but
it would be nice to have it on its own.

-- 
Karel Jansens
kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be

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