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- NoteTaker
- =========
-
- Author: Scott Powell (of Evolutionary Systems)
- Version: 1.3 (Shareware)
- Date: 31/07/1999
-
-
- Installation Notes
- ------------------
-
- Simply use The PalmPilot Install Tool (InstApp.exe) to install the
- 'note.prc' file onto your PalmPilot.
-
- You must also install the ONE of the vocabulary databases (also using
- 'instapp'). Either:
- root-words derived-words Size (Kbytes) Comments
- ---------- ------------- ------------- --------
- 'words.pdb' 13264 16893 85 Contains mostly 'rarer' words
- 'words2.pdb' 16432 21303 105 As above + more common words
- 'words3.pdb' 19420 26120 117 As above + even more words
-
- NOTE: If you use SpellCheck, you must delete it from your PalmPilot!!
- The two applications will be in conflict!
-
-
-
-
- Instructions & Guide
- --------------------
-
- NoteTaker is a MemoPad replacement app which includes an English spelling
- checker, and:
-
- - an easy to use user interface (just a double tap on the word you wish to
- check)
-
- - intuitive 'Word Suggestion'. Prompts you with words that you are
- likely to be typing, saving you many Graffiti strokes.
-
- - a 'slim' database (only ~80K) containing 'harder' words rather than
- common words which you are unlikely to want to look up (thus saving
- valuable RAM).
- NOTE: Now has alternate databases with more common words,
- improving the Word Suggestion/Completion feature.
-
- - simply tap on words in the list box and the word you selected replaces
- the word you double tapped.
-
- - a highly optimized, compressed database.
-
- For registered users:
-
- - Has 'Copy' & 'Cut' buttons on popup screen, to
- copy/cut the selected word to the clipboard.
-
- - Optional supplemental dictionary. You can maintain a list of 'extra'
- words, possibly specialised to your occupation. (add them from your
- Pilot, or on your desktop computer)
-
-
- Here is a detailed description of the program's operation.
-
- - first open an existing document, or tap the 'New' button. Start typing
- a word and after writing enough of the 'prefix' double tap on this word
- with the pen.
-
- OR: double tap on a word already contained in a document
-
- - the SpellCheck window should now pop-up, with the text you tapped on
- entered into a text field, with words beginning with that text in the
- listbox below.
-
- - use the hardware up and down buttons to scroll the list up and down.
-
- - If you see the word you were looking for just tap on the listbox entry,
- automatically replacing the original text with the word you selected.
-
- OR: if the word you selected has a full-stop ('.') in it, this indicates
- that the word has various suffixes that are possible. When you tap
- on a list entry like this the list is replaced with all the possible
- expansions of that word. eg.
-
- sceptic.al.ly
-
- gets expanded to:
-
- sceptic
- sceptical
- sceptically
-
- - Simply tap on the particular word you want, OR tap the 'Done' button
- to exit SpellCheck without selecting a word.
-
- OR: If the word wasn't found, try deleting trailing parts of the word
- from the text field (after the 'text:' prompt). eg.
-
- if 'familliar' was entered, try deleting the 'liar' part
- to get just 'famil'. Now the list will show all known words
- starting with 'famil'.
-
- - OR, Tap the 'Copy' button to copy the double-tapped word to the
- clipboard. (Registered users only)
-
-
- Configuring NoteTaker
- ---------------------
-
- From the memo list screen, select the 'Options' menu.
-
- See below in the 'History' section about the various options and features
- available.
-
-
- History
- -------
-
- Can now scan whole document for unknown words!
-
- Just press the 'Skip' button to scan the document for an unknown
- word. If you have a supplemental dictionary installed you can add
- the unknown word by pressing the 'Add' button.
-
- Supplemental Dictionary support!
-
- The Options screen now has menu items for creating a supplemental dictionary.
- This creates a Memo document which will be appended to when adding words
- 'on the fly', and can be directly edited by you, either on the Pilot or
- the Desktop.
- NOTE: If you add/modify/remove words from this document you MUST
- rebuild the index by selecting the 'Rebuild Index' menu item
- in the Options screen!
-
- Upper/lower case handling
-
- If you have Caps Lock on the word lists will be convereted to upper
- case. Also, if the word in the database has an upper case letter as
- its first character, selecting that word preserves the initial upper
- case (previously didn't).
-
- 'Copy' button to popup screen
-
- This works around the conflict with SelectHack. There was no clean
- way for the two to co-exist, so we added the function to NoteTaker
- as many people complained about the conflict.
-
- 'Wait for pause' feature (for word suggestion/completion)
-
- Now you can specify whether you want the popup lists to come up ONLY
- when there is a slight pause in the graffiti input. This seems to be
- a lot less annoying, and speeds up the processing of the Graffiti
- strokes.
-
- Go to the 'Options' dialog of 'Word Completion' and choose from the
- options after the 'Wait:' label.
-
-
- NOTE: --- NEW FEATURE!! ---
- When a popup list is up, tap on the 'menu' silk-screen button
- and the currently selected item in the list (usually the preferred
- one) is automatically selected - saving you time.
-
-
- Strategy of 'Word Suggestion'.
-
- The suggested words have been optimized even more. For example on typing
- a 't', the following words are suggested:
-
- the
- that
- this
- they
- time
-
- These are statistically the most used in English (starting with 't' of course).
- If you now type 'h' (ie. it's now 'th' that has been entered), you get these
- suggested:
-
- then
- there
- think
- their.s
- them
-
- None of the 'th' words from the first list are included in this second list.
-
-
- Extensive controls in 'Options'.
-
- The 'Options' screen now has the two 'Options' dialogues implemented.
- You can control where the popup lists get placed, how long they stay up
- for, whether or not you want the 'word suggestion' feature, and whether you
- want a space inserted after completed words.
-
- You can also configure the 'Graffiti Assist' feature, by tapping its
- 'Options' button. The dialogue gives you up to 12 characters you can
- effectively 're-map'. This re-mapping only happens when you type the BACKSPACE
- stroke - this is interpreted as "that's NOT the character I wanted" :-)
- Instead of doing "Charcter, Backspace, Character-You-Wanted" you just enter
- pairs of these erroneous characters in this dialogue, and then enable
- the 'Graffiti Assist' checkbox. Now, a backspace over one of these characters
- automatically gets corrected to your preference.
-
- NOTE: it is only useful configuring characters that commonly get interpreted
- wrong, otherwise it can be annoying. Just clear the other character
- pairs (of the 12) if you don't want to use them.
-
-
- Intuitive Word Suggestion
-
- When starting a word, a list will popup of the most common English words
- starting with what you have already typed. TRY IT OUT - go to the
- Options screen and check the 'Word Completion' checkbox.
-
- We hope to have a seperate preferance for word suggestion very soon. For
- now turning on 'Word Completion' enables both 'Word Suggestion' and
- 'Word Completion'. The two are very similar, but have some slightly
- different semantics.
-
-
- Word Completion
-
- When typing in a word and enough letters have been entered to fairly
- uniquely narrow down a word, SpellCheck will automatically popup a
- list of possible words which you are tying to enter. Just tap on the
- word desired, or just keep typing (or tap outside the popup list)
- to ignore the suggestion.
-
- You can enable/disable this feaure by setting the corresponding
- checkbox in the SpellConfig application.
-
-
- Graffiti Assist
-
- see above for this feature. ('SpellConfig')
-
-
- Known Problems
- --------------
-
- - Currently the word lookup is 'exact', ie. it looks into an index of known words.
- We hope to get phonetic matching implemented in a future version, so that it shows
- likely matches (based on sound) of incorrectly spelled words.
-
-
- Vocabulary Issues
- -----------------
-
- Undoubtedly the vocabulary in the initial version of 'words.pdb' will need to be
- expanded. Presently there are approximately 13000 'root' words in the database,
- with information on words formed from these root words (eg. sceptic -> sceptical)
- The words currently in the database have been picked by 'rareness', or words with
- exceptional spelling, so that the amount of RAM being used is minimized.
-
- Please Email amendments and words you would like to have in the vocabulary to
- the following address:
-
- support@evolutionary.net
-
- with the title set to 'Spell', so that we can separate the mail efficiently.
-
-
- Registration
- ------------
-
- This program is only operable for 15 days. If you like this program then you
- can register by pointing your Web browser to the following URL:
-
- http://www.evolutionary.net/register.htm
-
- This site allows you to pay online. In a day or two of registering you will
- receive a 'key' via Email which you enter by selecting the 'About...' menu
- in the Pilot app.
-
-
- Revision History
- ----------------
-
- 31/07/1999 1.3 * Added font selection to edit screen.
-
- 27/12/1998 1.2 * Added support for 'Private' memos.
-
- 23/08/1998 1.1a * Fixed memo list scrolling bug.
- * Fixed Fatal Exception when adding word just after
- creating/restoring supp. dict.
-
- 21/08/1998 1.1 * Added ScrollBar support for edit screen (PalmOS 2.x and
- up only; Scroll buttons added for PalmOS 1.x)
- * Can also scroll edit screen using the hardware up and down
- buttons.
-
- 16/08/1998 1.0 Initial release
-
-
- Credits
- -------
-
- thanks to:
- - John J. Lehett for the GNU 'C' port.
- - Wes Cherry for 'PILRC'
-
-
- Standard Disclaimer Stuff
- -------------------------
-
- This program is shareware, and without guarantee of merchantability. We
- take no responsibility in any loss of data or productivity in case of
- operating failures.
-
-