[NTLK] Two part question

Jeremy O'Brien obrien654j at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 15:17:28 EST 2010


I think I may have solved it. I went into alt.rec's settings, and
dragged the "max ink-text words" slider all the way to the left. Now it
seems to properly handle deferred recognition of whole sentences. What
is the intended use of that slider??

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:05:20PM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote:
> If I double-tap the words individually, it works fine. If I highlight an
> entire sentence, and then double-tap, it spits back one word for the
> whole phrase, or in some cases, one letter. I'm not sure what I'm doing
> wrong... Remember, I'm using "deferred recognition" with ink-text to do
> this.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:02:51PM -0200, robinson pereira wrote:
> > Alt.rec needs to learn the words. It asks just one time to double tap the
> > word, and then you tab the "book" figure.
> > But you can turn the oulining off.
> > I think because I am not writting in English, Alt.rec is very usefull to me.
> > Turns the HWR much more precise.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 2010/2/3 Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j at gmail.com>
> > 
> > > Hmm... Apparently it was alt.rec.... that was causing it. I removed it,
> > > and now I can successfully highlight entire lines and perform
> > > recognition on them. Odd.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:49:28AM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote:
> > > > Hmm. Do you manually double tap each word to do this? I tried
> > > > highlighting entire lines at a time and double tapping them, but the
> > > > newton goes through and looks like it's gonna convert every word
> > > > individually, but when it finishes it just spits out one word, and
> > > > when I hit undo, it forgets about half of my original sketch. Is
> > > > that normal?
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 3, 2010, at 2:50, Woo <vitcitylb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >1. I use the HWR->text if the Newton is on a firm steady surface.
> > > > >2. When I move around I use 'sketches' and keep it in my messy
> > > > >sloppy scribbles, then convert to text when I have time.
> > > > >
> > > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > > >>From: Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j at gmail.com>
> > > > >>Sent: Feb 3, 2010 2:11 AM
> > > > >>To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
> > > > >>Subject: [NTLK] Two part question
> > > > >>
> > > > >>1. I hear about a lot of people using their MP2x00's for note-
> > > > >>taking of
> > > > >>various sorts. Is it safe to assume that all of you use the external
> > > > >>newton keyboard? HWR is nice, but it isn't exactly the fastest input
> > > > >>method around...
> > > > >>
> > > > >>2. I have an external newton keyboard, but some of the keys require
> > > > >>great force to register (i, o, p), while at least both of my
> > > > >>shift keys
> > > > >>do not work at all. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I might
> > > > >>be able
> > > > >>to fix this and get more use out of my messagepad? So far I've been
> > > > >>using my emate to take notes, but obviously the messagepad is more
> > > > >>portable and faster. :)
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Thanks!
> > > > >>Jeremy
> > > > >>
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