Copyright © 2000 Marathon Development Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Patent Nos. 5220649, 5231698, 5590257, 5953735. Patents Pending.

PenScript is a trademark of Marathon Development Corporation. Palm Computing and Graffiti are registered trademarks of Palm Incorporated. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Marathon Development Corporation website: www.marathondc.com

PenScript is the most powerful ink-oriented notetaker available for Palm Computing® Platform devices. Handwritten or Graffiti® written memos can be edited with the power of a word processor. Sketches can be incorporated into a memo using the provided drawing tools. An efficient handwriting (ink) compression method allows memos to span many pages without consuming a lot of memory (a typical page uses about 500 bytes).

• To install PenScript requires 145K bytes of free memory. An additional 64K bytes of free memory is needed to run PenScript.
• Palm Computing Operating System 3.1 or later. The following devices appear to meet this requirement: Palm IIIe, Palm IIIx, Palm V, Palm VII, and the HandSpring Visor. If you are unsure about whether PenScript will work with your device, download and try out the demo version of PenScript from www.marathondc.com.

It is recommended that earlier versions of the PenScript program and any PenScript memos be removed before installing the latest version of the program. Make certain that you no longer need the PenScript memos held on your device and then do the following to remove them along with the PenScript program:

• Tap the Application icon
• Tap the Menu icon
• Select Delete on the App menu
• Select PenScript in the deletion list
• Tap the Done button

Double-click on the PenScript.PRC file included in PScript.zip package and follow the instructions on the screen. You will be informed that PenScript will be installed during the next HotSync operation. When you try to run PenScript for the first time, you will be asked to enter a product key code. You should have received the key code in an email following the purchase of PenScript. Do not lose the key code. Should you ever need to reinstall PenScript you might need to enter it again. It is not necessary to write the dashes when entering the code. Once the code has been accepted on your device, there will be approximately a 15-second delay before the PenScript screen appears. If PenScript repeatedly refuses your code, it could be that the Palm Desktop User Name specified during the purchase of PenScript was incorrect or that we erred when generating your key code. If there is a problem, send us an email containing a Palm Desktop User Name identical to what is shown in the Palm Desktop application. We will then generate a new key code for you.

The PenScript user interface consists of two screens - the Memo List Screen and the Memo Edit Screen. The Memo List Screen appears when you tap on the PenScript icon after having installed PenScript.

The Memo List Screen displays a list of all PenScript memos available on your palm-held computer. Tapping a memo list entry will cause the corresponding memo to be opened and displayed in the Memo Edit Screen. The first time PenScript is used, only the 'PenScript Tips' memo will be shown in the memo list. The tips provide basic information necessary to operate PenScript. Pressing the New button at the bottom of the Memo List Screen (or entering any Graffiti character) will cause the Memo Edit Screen to appear. Note that each memo in the memo list is identified by Graffiti (font) text that has been extracted from the first line of the corresponding memo. Memos that do not have font text on their first line are identified in the memo list by a timestamp giving the memo creation date and time.

Memo Edit Screen 

The Memo Edit Screen contains a number of user interface components that you should become familiar with before creating your first PenScript memo. The ruled lines are similar to those that would be found on a sheet of tablet paper. If you intend to use word processing features to edit your handwriting, you should try to write using the ruled lines as a guide - making sure that each word generally falls within the line area where you want the word to reside. It is normal to have descenders, such as the tail on the letter g, extending beneath the line that you are writing on. It is best to keep writing for a particular line beneath the preceding ruled line. The small open areas to the left and right of a ruled line are the margin areas. Placing the pen in the left margin will select lines or drawings. Pen actions or 'gestures' in the right margin are used to perform a number of functions as described below. In addition to a writing/drawing surface, the memo edit screen contains the following buttons and menus:

 -Buttons-

Done - Closes the memo and returns to the Memo List Screen.

Details - Provides information about the filing category for the memo.

U (Undo) - Causes the latest writing/drawing stroke to be removed from the screen. When used immediately following a deletion or erasure, the removed item is restored. This button must be pressed immediately after the edit that you want to undo, before any further edit actions, including selection or scrolling. The Undo button can also be used to clear the text cursor, deselect a selected area, cancel Space Gesture mode, cancel Eraser mode.

S (Space) - Pressing this button causes the pen to be placed in Space Gesture mode. The pen can then be used to shift writing/drawing in order to open/close blank space.

E (Eraser) - Pressing this button causes the pen to become an eraser upon contact with the screen. Ink touched by the eraser rectangle will be permanently erased. The pen will act as an eraser only as long as it remains in contact with the screen.

Record menu

• New Memo - Causes a blank memo to be created.
• Delete Memo - Deletes the current memo.
• Beam Memo - Sends a copy of the current memo to other devices via the infrared port.

Edit menu

• Undo - Performs the same actions as the Undo button (described above).
• Cut - Removes selected text and drawings and places them on the clipboard. The space occupied by the cut items is collapsed, allowing following items to occupy the space. The removed items can be restored to their original position by pressing the Undo button before performing any other editing actions, including selection or scrolling.
• Clear - Removes selected text and drawings without collapsing the space used by the removed items. The removed items are not placed on the clipboard. The items can be restored to their original position by pressing the Undo button before performing any other editing actions.
• Copy - Places selected text and drawings on the clipboard without removing them from the memo.
• Paste - Copies the contents of the clipboard to the location of the current text cursor or selection.
• Join - Joins two adjacent selected words to create a single word. If used with two adjacent selected lines, the topmost selected line being the last line of a paragraph and the bottommost selected line being the first line of the following paragraph, the two paragraphs will be joined as one paragraph.
• Select All - Selects the entire contents of the memo.
• Insert Date/Time - Inserts a timestamp containing the date and time at the current position of the text cursor.
• Find Text - Presents a popup window that accepts a font text search string. For the time being, only case sensitive searches are provided. Upon pressing either the upward or downward search direction button, the memo will scroll (if necessary) and a cursor will identify the found string. A distinctive beep will be heard if the string cannot be found in the specified direction.
• Graffiti Help - Displays the strokes used to enter Graffiti characters.

Options menu

• Ruled Paper - Causes the selected area to be converted to ruled line paper.
• Blank Paper - Causes the selected area to be converted to blank drawing paper.
• Graph Paper - Causes the selected area to be converted to dotted graph paper.
• Font* - Causes a font selection popup window to be displayed. Any change in font will be applied to the entire document when the OK button in the window is pressed.
• Word Wrap* - Enables/disables word wrapping of text in the memo. When word wrapping is disabled the Indentation Marker (see image below) is not shown. If you intend to disregard ruled line boundaries and write wherever you feel like writing, you should disable word wrapping.
• Background* - Enables/disables the display of background graphics such as ruled lines or the graph paper grid. When background graphics are not displayed vertical lines will delineate left and right margin boundaries.
• Smart Select* - Enables/disables a feature that automatically detects the boundaries of drawings made over ruled lines. Unlike drawings made over blank paper or graph paper backgrounds, drawings made over ruled lines have less definite boundaries. As long as one quarter of an inch of blank space is left at the beginning of each ruled line that a drawing contacts, the drawing should be detectable by Smart Select processing. Leave a blank line between drawings so Smart Select can uniquely identify them. If Smart Select makes a mistake, it can be temporarily disabled allowing for the manual selection of objects.

• Word Boundaries* - Presents a popup window that allows you to adjust the amount of space that PenScript will look for between words when attempting to identify word boundaries. Adjustments are necessary only if it appears that multiple words are being joined into a single word or a single word is being split into multiple words.
• About PenScript - Displays information about PenScript.
• Contact Information - Displays information about Marathon Development Corporation.

Ink menu

• Pen - Causes freeform ink to flow from the pen when it contacts the screen.
• Line - Causes a stretching line (a rubberband line) to be rendered as the pen is moved across the screen.
• Rectangle - Causes a stretching square/rectangle to be rendered as the pen is moved across the screen.
• Circle - Causes a stretching circle/ellipse to be rendered as the pen is moved across the screen.
• Eraser - Causes a black rectangle (the eraser) to be displayed when the pen touches the screen. Ink touched by the rectangle will be permanently erased.
• Snap-To-Grid* - Enables/disables a feature that causes line, rectangle, and circle objects to automatically be aligned at fixed grid positions as they are drawn.

* New memos are created using the latest setting for this option.

PenScript uses pen taps and straight-line pen motions or 'gestures' to facilitate edits. Some common edits include selecting text, changing the position of text, altering paragraph boundaries, and opening space within text for writing.

To select some text, hold the pen to the screen until the selection prompt (a vertical bar) appears. Once the selection prompt is visible, selection is extended to other words by moving the pen across the screen. When the pen is lifted, the selection will be deemed complete and the entire selected area will continue to be displayed in reverse video. To quickly select a single word, double-tap on the word. Once selected, text can be cut, copied, or operated on in some other way.

To select entire ruled lines or drawings touch the pen in the left margin next to the item that you want to select. You can then drag the pen up or down to select additional items. If the pen is dragged to the top or bottom of the screen, the document will scroll to reveal items in the corresponding direction. Items brought on-screen by the scrolling are selected as the scrolling occurs.

For a drawing made over a series of ruled lines (rather than within a blank paper or graph paper drawing area) you should always select the entire drawing, not portions of it. If Smart Select is enabled, selection of the entire drawing will be automatic. If Smart Select is disabled, selection of the drawing is accomplished by placing the pen in the left margin next to the first line of the drawing and dragging it downward until all ruled lines touched by the drawing are selected. Operations then applied to the selection will operate on the drawing as a whole.

In order to open or close blank writing/drawing space, text and drawings can be shifted from their current positions. A space gesture is used to perform the shifting. To begin a space gesture, press the Space (S) button at the bottom of the screen and then touch the pen to the first word that needs to be moved. Drag the pen to the right or downward in order to open space. Drag it to the left or upward to close space. All text at and following the pen will move with the pen. Note that when closing space, text cannot be shifted into positions occupied by existing text.

Entire ruled lines and drawing areas can be shifted up or down by performing a space gesture in the right margin next to the item that you want to shift.

The fastest way to perform a space gesture is to avoid using the Space button. This can be done by tapping the pen on the word that you want to shift and then immediately touching and holding the pen to the same location. A space gesture prompt (circle) will appear beneath the pen indicating that the space gesture can be made.

 -Editing Features-

Although a space gesture can always be used to open writing space, there are a couple of quicker ways to open blank writing lines while writing:

• You can tap in the right margin at a line position where you would like a single blank line to appear. For instance, when you are writing and come to the end of the writing line, just tap in the right margin. The line at the tap position will be shifted upward and a blank line will be inserted. This allows handwritten text to be entered continuously on a single screen line.
• A double-tap in the right margin will open a block of blank lines. The line/drawing at the position of the double-tap is shifted to the top of the screen and then enough blank lines to fill the remainder of the screen are inserted.

On a ruled line hold the pen to the screen until a selection prompt (vertical bar) appears. Lifting the pen will cause a blinking cursor to replace the selection prompt. The cursor is used to indicate the location within a PenScript document where a text editing action should take place, such as the location for pasting clipboard data, inserting the date/time, or entering Graffiti text. The fastest way to position a cursor between words is to double-tap between the words.

The standard way of moving text/drawings from one place to another is to select the relevant items, Cut/Copy the selected items to the clipboard, set a target cursor position, and then Paste the clipboard items to that position. An easier way is to select the items that need to be moved, touch the pen to any location within the selected area, and then drag the pen to the desired destination. If the destination is off-screen, the document will automatically scroll as the pen reaches the upper or lower boundary of the screen. When the pen is lifted, the selected items will be inserted at the indicated position near the pen tip. If the pen is lifted in the left margin area, the item being moved will be inserted as a paragraph distinct from the existing contents of the line.

Occasionally PenScript will assume that two words are a single word because the words were written more closely together than normal. If this happens a lot, automatic word detection should be adjusted by choosing Word Boundaries from the Options menu. For less frequent occurrences, select the erroneous word and make a downward vertical stroke within the selected area at the position where you would like the word to be split. The word will be split into two words, with the appropriate amount of space being inserted between the words.

For delicate word splitting, a special space gesture is available. To perform the gesture, touch and hold the pen to a word at the position where you would like the word to be split. A cursor will appear indicating precisely where the word will be split. If the split position is satisfactory, lift the pen and then touch and hold the pen again at the same position. A space gesture prompt will appear enabling you to drag the right portion of the word with the pen. If the split position indicated by the cursor is not satisfactory, press the Undo button and try again.

Sometimes PenScript splits a single word into two words because more space than usual was left between characters when the word was written. If this happens a lot, automatic word detection should be adjusted by choosing Word Boundaries from the Options menu. Less frequent occurrences can easily be corrected with one of two methods:

1. Select the two adjacent words and then choose Join from the Edit menu.
2. Perform a space gesture between the words and drag the right word to the left, removing the excess space between the words.

When entering handwriting, PenScript will automatically assume that you have started a new paragraph if you skip a line, indent a line more than one quarter of an inch, or leave more than an inch of open space at the end of one line and continue writing at the beginning of the next line. There might be times when PenScript's automatic paragraph detection does not identify the beginning of a paragraph or you decide to split a paragraph into two paragraphs. At times like this the space gesture can be used to indicate the beginning of a paragraph. This is accomplished by dragging the first word of the intended second paragraph away from the first paragraph to the beginning of a subsequent line. If the first word of the intended second paragraph is already positioned where it should be (at the beginning of a line), shift the word slightly to the right. This will indicate to PenScript that the word is not part of the first paragraph.

There are a few methods available for connecting two paragraphs in order to create a single paragraph:

1. With the pen in the left margin, select the last line of the first paragraph and the first line of the second paragraph. The lines must be adjacent with no intervening lines. Choose Join from the Edit menu to connect the paragraphs.
2. Use a space gesture to drag the first word of the second paragraph to a position immediately following the last word in the first paragraph. If the two words will not fit on the same line, shift the first word of the second paragraph to the left margin.
3. Perform a horizontal space gesture following the last word of the first paragraph. The gesture should begin near the end of the line and move to the left. When the pen is lifted, the words at the beginning of the second paragraph will wrap back to fill the last line of the first paragraph.

The eraser is always available to erase writing or drawing ink, but there are more powerful methods, such as deletion and erasure edits:

• Deletion (Cut) causes selected text to be removed, allowing any following text to occupy the resulting empty space.
• Erasure (Clear) removes selected text but does not allow any following text to shift into the empty space.

It is appropriate to use deletion in those cases where you want to get rid of some writing and to use erasure in those cases where you want to replace writing with new writing.

In addition to the Edit menu options Cut and Clear, two simple gestures can be used to cause a deletion or erasure. After having selected some writing, make a straight horizontal stroke from the right to the left within the selected area in order to perform a deletion. A straight horizontal stroke from the left to the right within the selected area will perform an erasure. Alternatively, pressing the Eraser (E) button will cause a selected area to be erased. A deletion or erasure can be undone by pressing the Undo button before performing any other edit action, including selection or scrolling.

PenScript allows you to write/draw anywhere between the left and right margins - at any time. It tries to understand the layout of your document as you write. In order to assure that a drawing made over a series of ruled lines is not interpreted as the continuation of a paragraph of writing, you should make sure that your entire drawing resides at least 1/4 of an inch to the right of the beginning of each line. A dark spot (tick mark) appears on each line to give you an indication of where 1/4 of an inch is. Do not enter writing that you expect to edit later onto the ruled lines where a drawing resides.

The best way to add a drawing or sketch to a PenScript document is to create a drawing area using Blank Paper or Graph Paper. First, select a series of ruled lines and then choose the desired paper type from the Options menu. Some benefits of drawing areas created with blank/graph paper are:

• Pen gestures are not active in the drawing area, allowing you to draw at any speed or make multiple dots (taps) without inadvertently invoking a gesture mode.
• Word processing features, such as word wrapping, cannot affect the contents of a drawing area.
• Gestures in the margins next to a drawing area always act on the drawing area as a whole.

You can convert from one type of paper to another at any time. To do this, select the area that you want to convert and then choose a new paper type from the Options menu.

In place of a scrollbar PenScript has provided two special scrolling gestures:

1. Line oriented scrolling is performed by dragging the pen in the right margin for at least a quarter of an inch. As the pen is dragged the screen contents will shift with the pen. If the pen is dragged outside the writing/drawing area of the screen, scrolling will occur.
2. Page oriented scrolling is performed by holding the pen to the screen in the right margin until the scrolling indicator (3 dots) appears. Dragging the pen in the right margin for at least a quarter of an inch will cause the screen contents to scroll in page increments.

For people who prefer to use scrolling buttons, PenScript provides page oriented and line oriented scrolling buttons in the lower right corner of the screen. The leftmost up/down arrows are used for page scrolling; the rightmost for line scrolling.

When a search is requested by tapping the Palm Find icon, PenScript searches only its memo titles for the given text string. PenScript memos can be relatively long, causing significant delays if the entire text of multiple long memos were to be searched.

Within individual memos, searches for font text are supported through the PenScript Find feature. Selecting Find from the Edit menu will cause a popup window appear. A case-sensitive search string and a search direction can then be specified. Each time the search string is found, a cursor will be displayed next to the found text. If the search string cannot be found in the given direction a distinctive beep will be heard.

When finished creating a memo it is best to press the Done button on the Memo Edit Screen rather than just turning off the computer. This will allow PenScript to sleep soundly, saving battery power.

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