Re: [NTLK] Inkwell and cursive HWR in OS X

At 1:24 PM +0200 5/8/08, Jon Glass wrote:
>I forgot to mention that I have seen these change over time. I used to
>spend a lot of time (In OS 1.3) modifying these things to improve
>recognition, and I know I didn't modify them all. BTW, Apple's own
>docs used to discuss this (page 131 in my own 120 NOS1.3 handbook).

Ah! I get it. And I'm sorry for doubting you. :)

I was talking about in 2.0 and onward, when there were separate print and cursive recognizers. The separate print recognizer didn't exist in the Newton until 2.0. And you're absolutely right about printed letter forms being user-adjustable for the *only* recognizer in 1.x, that later became known as the cursive recognizer from 2.0 onward. And I think you're right about the 2.x cursive recognizer automatically updating its preferred templates. Even though it was called the cursive recognizer, it obviously handled mixed cursive, printed, and connected, so it had to pay attention to printed letter forms as well as cursive letter forms.

Meanwhile, the print recognizer, only introduced with 2.0, did all its learning before shipping. It never saw those letter forms, no matter what anyone did with them. (Again, it *could* have been set up to do learning, and was always intended to do so, it just never got the engineering resources to allow it to happen.)

Mystery solved.

- larryy

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