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1. M 30 Chapter 16 Improving Recognition reserare 31 Identifying Problems ad ied da peu ee ARR Td EXER e CRX Eae AER ce REX Td e eei aket 31 Eixing Problermis 5 ei doa tht mt Eu 32 Appendix A How the matching system works sess 35 Appendix B Advanced Tuning ereeeeeeeeeenen enne enne tnnt 36 Appendix C Automatic Tuning eeeeereeeeeeeeesenennene ennt etn nna ennnen 37 Step 1 Entering sample strokes sessi hne nennen nnn 37 Step 2 Removing mistakes o p a e o e o oid dpa rad i no d Po dotes 37 Step 3 Set AutoTune Options sessi esee nennen nnne nnn hh hne n nn nhe nna then nnn 38 Step 4 Evolve profile AAR 39 Step 5 Manually fix up entries sess hh nha nnn hh nnn then nnn 39 Step 6 Cleanup files ere EEN 39 Appendix D Frequently Asked Questions erre 40 only want to use Graffiti 1 strokes How do I turn off multi stroke characters like T 40 When use the Write anywhere feature it sometimes doesn t work only sometimes get ar PEE 40 I ve upgraded from the older version but I m not seeing the new strokes or improved ee Teile e 41 l can t get any characters to be recognized sesssssssesese nennen 41 I can t get autocaps to work 41 TealScript
2. The most useful place to diagnose errors is in the Test hello world Recognition screen Write the characters which you find problematical or are trying to test When a recognition error occurs look in the leftmost box to see exactly what the program is receiving from the screen hardware It should resemble the stroke you were intending to make Try to categorize the error in one of the following possibilities Input 4 f Match 5696 futon ES Tes It only somewhat looks like the letter I wanted It somewhat resembles another letter too or none at all Solution You can t adjust the software to fix this type of problem so adjust the person doing the writing instead Slow down your handwriting Be careful to write the characters smoothly and with enough pressure on the pen keep care to be vertical or using the slant compensation preference option to make your stroke vertical Writing large often helps Try using a program like TealEcho to let you see your pen stroke when you write It looks like the letter wanted but differs slightly from the standard graffiti stroke in the profile and is representative of my handwriting Solution Retrain the entry in the profile in the edit screen to make it resemble your handwriting better This commonly occurs with just a single letter For some the letter Y can be problematical because the end loop differs from the standard profile Since most variations on the Y still d
3. installed you must turn off Graffiti 2 s own write anywhere functionality You can find this option in the writing area item under Preferences You can tell if TealScript is responding to the full screen stroke because the drawing ink for TealScript is noticeably different from Graffiti 2 s If this does not help also try turning off any keyboard drivers you may be running It has been reported that driver for the KB11 interferes with TealScript Can I program TealScript to understand two taps in the number area as an umlaut diaeres shift for entering 6 and a characters like Graffiti 2 Yes To do so you must Edit Stroke Entries unchecking the number checkbox for the entry for the period stroke Then create a new Diaeres entry checking the Number area and Punctuation Mode boxes only and training it as a single tap You can also create a unique new stroke to enter a whole diaeres shifted character like as a single ASCII or macro stroke I cannot get Graffiti shift modes to work on my CLIE Turn off MinikeyE the driver for the mini thumb keyboard if you have it as it resets the PalmOS system shift modes when operating 42 Appendix E Revision History Version 3 94 January 15 2008 e Added option to turn on off filtering of initial pen bounces Version 3 93 November 19 2007 e Improved recognition to reject false punctuation shifts entered by bouncing stylus at start of stroke
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6. Rm 20 ett 21 VEL 22 Chapter 12 Testing Recognition erase enne nnne 23 OVGIVIGW MEET 23 IMPLOVING aloe alio ME 23 Chapter 13 Training the Profile eeecereeerreneerneenee 24 OVOrVIOW uiii mns Miu P RE DIR e a ER E 24 Starting a training session earriero EAEE ORARIE OAE nnne nn nnn 24 Chapter 14 Editing Stroke Entries eeeeerreeeeneenee 25 OVGIVICW geseet ieee dads ied ie ies edie die sae ieee ei ilies eli 25 Key to Send one stroke sessi ane cena aaa ence nnne E Er idar redi eriei a aE nn nnns 26 Key to Send multi stroke eee en nnne nhe nhanh enne nane nnn nnn 26 erc 26 Squalo asse doc DE uitam ioo o m abt OE uem 27 Go EM mt 27 IS E 27 Shift Modes iiit ao roD og c rb abd atis a e obo us as 28 Sending el 28 Sending Key Macros eo de e eed eet ee tid EUM penu yu ee EUR ee Lue edie 28 Sending System Macros sredu odao ea aia a inesse hehehe nnns adreis sn natn nens nn then en an then nnn 29 Chapter 15 Main Menu ltems eese reeenene ene nn enne nntnannanntn 30 VE EE 30 Le ln 30 Delete oo E i e du atn e d ui t ide tb dut ae pe 30 ZIP E Ee geesde ee een eegene EE 30 onapshot stroke shapes iat E Ee ead 30 2 EMEND
7. a single spot This option can be changed to increase or decrease sensitivity but should be changed in conjunction with the following option Normal tap if held within XX pixels This parameter specifies the minimum distance in pixels which the pen must move before being classified as a text entry stroke Along with the previous entry this parameter determines whether pen taps and movements are interpreted as normal taps or text entry When the pen touches the screen what it does in the initial time interval determines how it s interpreted If it moves outside the specified pixel radius the stroke is considered text entry If it stays within the radius it s considered a screen tap If the pen is lifted up before the time interval expires it is considered text entry punctuation shift unless the Disable for Quick Taps option is set Normal tap if XX seconds after last stroke Since text tends to be entered in blocks of characters TealScript can use this fact to help it detect text writing This parameter specifies a timeout value following entering a character before which screen taps are assumed to be text entry This allows a sequence of characters to be entered easily without the system unexpected switching to normal tap mode NOTE Be sure to turn off the Graffiti 2 write anywhere option in system preferences if present before using TealScript s own write anywhere mode 15 Chapter 8 Write Anywhere Apps Write Anywhere
8. as T and K are typically entered in two overlapping pen strokes For these characters the second stroke has to be written immediately after the first This option sets the maximum time delay in fractions of a second that can occur between two strokes in order for them to be interpreted as a multi stroke character The two strokes that make up a T for instance can either be interpreted as a T or as an P followed by a space depending on whether they overlap and how quickly the second stroke follows the first Adjust this option if you need more or less time to enter all the strokes in a multi stroke character HINT Set this option to Disable to easily turn off all multi stroke characters Adjust for Slanted Text Handwriting recognition is generally very sensitive to the angle the text is written and can get confused if you tend to write letters at an angle For instance C and L strokes can appear very similar if either is drawn at a slight angle To compensate for this you can tell TealScript to adjust for text slanted up to 20 degrees to the left or right HINT When selected this option automatically rotates your stroke as you enter it in the opposite direction to compensate for the slant Use the Test Recognition screen to preview how the rotated text looks If the preview appears perfectly vertical you ve chosen the correct setting Chapter 5 Options Prefs Options Prefs i The Options Prefs scre
9. been specifically tuned to work with the new engine With TealScript 3 0 or higher you ll be given a choice of an empty or default profile when creating a new one You should choose default and make sure it is selected as the active profile before continuing I can t get any characters to be recognized Make sure your current profile is not empty If so create a new default profile from the drop down menu and choose standard for the type of profile I can t get autocaps to work Make sure you have Enable Globally check off in the TealScript s main screen Also if you were running MiddleCapsHack turn that program off You may have to do a soft reset as well to completely unhook it TealScript crashes when running certain hacks TealScript is known to be incompatible with CorrectHack and perhaps SelectHack on OSA or earlier With other hacks running PalmOS 4 or earlier you may need to use TrapWeaver to run hacks which patch directly into the Graffiti text routines I can t get the full screen write anywhere option to work on my Treo OS4 handheld This option is only available on devices running PalmOS 5 and higher like the Treo 600 due to support and technical compatibility concerns We have no plans at this time to implement full screen writing on older devices 41 The Write anywhere seems to work but I can t get any custom or Graffiti 1 strokes to be recognized If you are running on a handheld with Graffiti 2
10. character n Punctuation strokes enter common punctuation symbols if entered after a punctuation shift stroke tap Strokes such a plus quote asterisk brackets and braces and and number sign 4 are designed to be easier to remember than their counterparts in other systems For instance and plus sign is entered by simply drawing a plus after entering a punctuation shift MM Symbol strokes consist of letters less frequently used in normal writing than their punctuation counterparts 21 Special Strokes TealScript Help Enter these strokes to insert special characters amp e w Special Macro Strokes TealScript Help Enter these strokes to insert a macro text string for the w Macros Special strokes generate characters which are neither letters nor numbers but do not require a punctuation or symbol shift By default TealScript supports a few special strokes such as amp and There can be written normally without or with a punctuation or symbol shift because they are unique enough not to be confused with a normal letter or number TealScript supports the creation of multi character macros which can be used to enter short words or character combinations with a single stroke Two example simple macros are included in the default profile to write the words for and the These are just sample entries included to demonstrate this feature You c
11. default TealScript database was created with about 2000 letters and 600 numbers but the optimal number if it exists may be different Step 2 Removing mistakes IET TTPEI C Register After entering the sample strokes the next step is to remove any Remove Mistakes strokes which should not be recognized because they were too The entries below represent strokes Sloppily entered or are simply incorrect Leaving in strokes which which could not be recognized with actually look more like other characters would unbalance the tuning the current profile and settings Vn A Carefully review each stroke and modifying the database so that when you are really trying to enter delete any which were are really those other characters you d get the mistaken entry instead The just mistakes system will scan through all the strokes in the sample database and 4 la gt 1 bring up the Remove Mistakes screen where you can scroll through H all the entries and delete ones which aren t representative strokes 37 Step 3 Set AutoTune Options AutoTune Options The AutoTune Options allows you select which actions the genetic When Evolving algorithm will use V Change tuning values PR Merge distort strokes Vf Replace distort strokes O Create new distort strokes O Delete unused distort strokes V Modify squelch values PN Modify cutoff values O Limit max entries to 244 Change tuning values Tries new values for the advanced tuni
12. described in the i information button on the Control screen and you re welcome to experiment with them 35 Appendix B Advanced Tuning Advanced Tuning x2 Y2 V1 v2 Done Restore Defaults The advanced tuning menu allows the manipulation of internal TealScript scaling values used in character recognition This menu exists for experimentation and for confirming and undoing changes made using the Automatic Tuning feature below While manual manipulation of these values is possible doing so is largely a matter of trial and error Consequently specific information about the meaning and use of each parameter is not available and manipulation of the values is not an officially supported operation 36 Appendix C Automatic Tuning Gees H Automatic Tuning is an extremely powerful advanced option that is 0 useful when creating a new profile from scratch or making coarse 0 adjustments to an existing profile Rutomatic Tuning uses a genetic algorithm and a large sample of Automatic Tuning uses a genetic algorithm to tune a stroke strokes to tune your profile Rdd profile s settings and entries by brute force to match a large adi database of user entered sample strokes When running the before beginning and be prepared k h file to hand edit the profile afterwards Program makes numerous random c anges to a given profile s Tap i for docs and other warnings entries and the TealScript s advanced tuning
13. for is linked to a clockwise triangle starting in the upper left These are just examples With a little creativity you can create your own strokes for the words you use the most 28 Sending System Macros Macro strokes also support the special character codes below Insert these codes into a macro to emulate a system button press or special stroke or action d R P 9dN U D 96 K Sox 96 C A M UF Kal 3 A 5 B E 9eT H 2676 G Kl XK KR ep S k 9c Yor So 9d Ki 9d Left arrow moves text cursor one character to the left Right arrow moves text cursor one character to the right Previous field moves text cursor to previous text field if supported Next field moves text cursor to next text field if supported Scroll Up simulates press of scroll up button Scroll Down simulates press of scroll down button Top of text moves to start of current text field This code must be at start of the macro New in 3 86 Bottom of text moves to end of current text field This code must be at start of the macro New in 3 86 Start of line moves to the start of the current line after hard line break This code must be at start of the macro New in 3 86 End of line moves to the end of the current line before next hard line break This code must be at start of the macro New in 3 86 Command simulates menu command stroke Apps sim
14. had a funky piecemeal way of dividing the display Chapter 4 Recognition Prefs iT UML The Recognition Prefs screen accessible by either the on screen f Allow alternate strokes Preferences button or drop down menu provides the following O Disable system auto shift un ion help improve recognition accuracy and speed Fos capitalize strokes options to help impro g y p near alpha nur boundary w Never Recognize multi stroke characters if entered in w Timeout 0 8s Adjust for text slanted to Left 209 to ERE 107 20 Right Allow Alternate Strokes When this option is turned on the recognition engine recognizes as valid strokes entries in the current profile marked as alternates These typically identify stroke entries which are not the official way to enter certain characters but are commonly used alternatives which are unique enough to not be confused with another valid stroke You might want to turn off this option if you create many alternate strokes but later want to temporarily disable them and go back to a bare bones set of standard graffiti strokes Normally however you want to set this option to on Disable System Auto Shift Newer versions of the Palm OS automatically capitalize the beginning of a block of text or sentence Checking this option tells TealScript to ignore this auto capitalization and always enter characters as lower case unless explicitly shifted to uppe
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16. in the stroke list by entering the character corresponding to those entries 25 Key to Send one stroke When the displayed stroke is entered the key specified in the first key action field is generated and sent to the current application The key can be an actual displayed character such as A or a system command or special function such as Symbol Shift Key to Send multi stroke Some stroke entries can represent more than one character depending on whether it is entered overlapping and following another 1 or 2 characters These multi stroke character entries are intermixed with single stroke entries since many use the same basic pen movements Multi stroke characters have a second key action defined which will be used if a specified one or two characters precedes the current stroke Some strokes such as the second stroke of K have no one stroke interpretation so their normal key is set to none HINT The stroke list is sorted by the single stroke interpretation of each stroke Multi stroke characters are listed under the single stroke interpretation for the last stroke of the multi stroke character For instance look in the stroke entries for space not T to find where the two stroke T is defined Class Stroke entries can be classified under three different classes Standard Alternate and Distorted These affect how the strokes are affected by training or the main screen the allow alte
17. keyboard drivers particularly the MiniKeyboard driver for the CLIE if present Chapter 1 Overview MM ealscript uses exclusive technology to recognize handwriting strokes in a highly accurate but flexible manner TealScript comes with a default profile which allows entry of characters in a number of styles including standard Graffiti strokes and non graffiti natural strokes such as both single and two stroke T K and X characters TealScript is tunable yielding better recognition than Graffiti or Graffiti 2 More importantly using TealScript the end user can modify existing strokes remove old ones or create new strokes altogether to create their own personal stroke alphabet Profiles TealScript recognizes strokes in graffiti area by comparing each entered pen stroke to sample entries in a database that maps each sample stroke to the letter or character it represents This database also called a stroke profile is used as a sort of dictionary converting a stroke to a character once it s found the closest match You can create more than one profile allowing you to switch sets of strokes when changing users languages or input styles Fine Tuning Most tuning is done by manipulating the individual entries in a stroke profile You can modify various adjustment values retrain its recorded stroke data add new stroke entries or remove existing ones While fairly technical this process can be streamlined with th
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19. sometimes needed if using a third party graffiti skin that adds extra buttons to the writing area Exchanged The previous four layouts are also available in X variations where the alphabetic and numeric areas are swapped This is particularly useful for left handed users or when using the push to write mode 12 Chapter 6 Write Anywhere Mode Prefs Write Anywhere Mode Purh te Writa Mode Use the Write Anywhere Mode screen under Preferences to E Enable Write Anywhere when activate and set options for how writing on the screen is recognized S way center is held down and drawn The following options are available Ruto Detect Mode Ruto detect screen writing M Tapping Graffiti shift indicator toggles auto detect mode PR Beep with activation change Screen Ink f Draw border line s Enable Write Anywhere when 5 way center is held down This option enables Push to Write mode which lets you write on the screen whenever you hold down the 5 way select button Auto detect screen writing This option enable Auto Detect mode where screen taps and strokes are interpreted as text entry depending on the position and speed of the stroke Tapping Graffiti shift indicator toggles auto detect mode When set this option lets you turn on or off Auto Detect mode by tapping on the on screen Graffiti shift indicator if present Beep with activation change This option tells the system to beep once when turning on Auto Detect mo
20. strokes which are entered on the right side of the text entry area These strokes are written the way most people write their numbers The numbers 4 and 5 however only consist of the first stroke for these numbers though the 5 can also be entered using its full formed one stroke version which resembles the letter S Navigation strokes are used to move the text cursor within a field from field to field if software supported to the next line or to insert a space or delete a character They consist of either a single linear stroke or a doubling back of that stroke onto itself along the same line System strokes perform special PalmOS specific functions such as shifting to a new text entry state starting a menu command stroke or initiating a macro text shortcut New strokes for cut copy paste and undo can also simplify text editing 20 International Strokes TealScript Help Enter these after select letters to convert them to accented form Acute CFlex Diaeres Grave Ring Tilde w International TealScript Help Enter these strokes after D a punctuation shift DEST SE Tab p d i Enter these strokes after a symbol shift w Symbols Punctuation Strokes International strokes convert the preceding character to its accented equivalent For instance executing the Acute stroke following an A stroke LZ generates the accented
21. Apps The Write Anywhere Apps screen under Preferences allows you Switch Write finywhere to have Write Anywhere Auto Detect mode automatically turn on or v Off for selected apps off when launching specified applications o Address CI fipplications Select apps from a list of all apps installed on the handheld in main memory You have a choice of the following options V Beep with activation change Off for selected apps Write Anywhere is automatically turned off when entering selected apps Apps that have not been selected assume to the last user selected state On for selected apps Write Anywhere is automatically turned on when entering selected apps Apps that have not been selected assume to the last user selected state Off for selected else on Write Anywhere is automatically turned off when entering selected apps Write Anywhere is automatically turned on for all other apps On for selected else off Write Anywhere is automatically turned on when entering selected apps Write Anywhere is automatically turned off for all other apps HINT Apps running off external storage cards or otherwise not present in memory when the App List is created are treated as unselected apps To select one of these apps load a temporary copy into main memory before entering the Write Anywhere Apps screen and select the apps The apps can then be deleted from memory and run from the cards TealScript will treat the apps as selected as long a
22. BER ee ERR e LB an Eae e ERR ENEE REF o HERES 11 Filter Initial PON POUNCE ERE 11 sei EET 12 Chapter 6 Write Anywhere Mode Prefs ree 13 Chapter 7 Write Anywhere Tuning eceeeeereeeeereeeeen etn nnetn enne 14 Disable if n active text field ttn aree tat Esa sena ee pa ESA Hune aM 14 Disable for quick initial ops 14 Normal tap if held down for XX ae 15 Normal tap if held within XX Diels 15 Normal tap if XX seconds after last airoke sse nennen nnne nnns 15 Chapter 8 Write Anywhere Apps ssssssessseessessseenerseenssenseeneeensneneennsneneensees 16 Off for selected apps iiit etii EA et uud eonun HY een RE ENEE cep Lee EN dir nee 16 On for selected apps acit aed ad add reside Do edu maed a etude eese e tp serae EE 16 Off for selected elS6 Ofhxa EE 16 ON tele Ee LEET 16 Chapter 9 Editing Shortcuts iiie cene minia ik bk vinta bn nte 17 Chapter 10 Showing Statistics issues niat nnannk na Rnan auda ni gd LR RE Sad Eg ad iREE 18 Va E 11 EE 18 Fine TUNING Recognition ss cctesseccctineds toiture euni eeu nde o Laud ee Ex du ee aede e an dar Lande uas 18 Chapter 11 TealScript Stroke Help eere 19 Multi Stroke Characters 5 ded e eu eet Ende e ax RARE e hes ER Des dea de EEN 19 Ee Ee 19 Navigation Strokes 4 iid iid de eed ee o Lea seat ives eo Led EES 20 OVSIOM SUOKOS
23. NT To turn off a stroke entry entirely without deleting it simply uncheck both the Number and Alpha area checkboxes 27 Shift Modes Normal Mode Indicates that this entry is valid when no shift modes active Punctuation Mode Indicates that this stroke is valid when the punctuation shift is on Symbol Mode Indicates that this stroke is valid when symbol shift is on NOTE At least one of the three above options must be set for a stroke to do anything Sending ASCII Keys Set a key action to ASCII at the bottom of the Key s list to define a character by numerical code value if it doesn t appear in the list of standard characters You can use the ASCII entry to create strokes for special characters in the Palm font set not generally supported by graffiti like the 1 4 fraction symbol or for European characters with umlauts and such HINT The FontViewer app available from palmgear com can be useful in identifying these characters and their corresponding ASCII code numbers Sending Key Macros You can enter multiple keystrokes up to 9 characters and link them to a single graffiti stroke using the macro key choice when creating a new stroke This can be a much quicker way to enter common words than the standard Graffiti shortcut mechanism The default profile has a few example strokes for multiple key macros For instance drawing a clockwise triangle starting in the lower left corner will create the word and The word
24. TealScript User s Manual TealPoint NOONE Program Version 3 94 Last Updated January 15 2008 Table of Contents DVT OCCU OI o aE 1 IBI fe dloremue 1 CON ONS E 1 els Mr 2 Chapter T E 3 E A E E O stains es N AA N A A T E E a E A aa 3 Fine T UN EE 3 Chapter 2 Starting the Program ssasssnsnsnenunnnnnnnunnnunununununununununununununununnnunnnnnnnnnnnnn 4 Enable Globally icis etii Ex Rae e ERR E Le e RENS dle e RES RL ee RENE Ere FERNER Le FRANE SEN 4 Additonal ee EE 4 Chapter 3 Write Anywhere MOde s ssssssssesseesessseesesseensnensensseeneeneeeeneeseenens 5 Pusth to Wrlte Mode ee EEN 5 Auto DetectMOde E 5 Whiting E 7 Chapter 4 Recognition Prefs iesisiisctccsnssistesnsecieinaditeameaisenatonsienceieinatenaaeieuinanadin 8 Allow Alternate StrokKes scies nie n EAEE EENE EE ER 8 Disable System Auto ShifL iioii ota baa cse d Ea bean tdeo dd e Dando eade tau deed oases 8 IECLQUernr cs 8 Multi stroke timing iiis E E RR ieee EE tier ERE NY ke ni vine RENE ya FREE be e ENSE 9 Adjust for Slanted EE 9 Chapter 5 Options GC 10 On Ime emi Ems 10 Maintain entry ELE 11 Beep on unrecognized strokes ssesesisssssssssssssesee eene nn hne nhanh nennen nn nnns 11 GUCK ON SUOKG 1 CINIY EE PEE 11 Disable Custom GSI Draw iine trie ERR Re e
25. Version 3 92 October 24 2007 e Updated TealScript not to save stroke history in TealLock or system Security lock screen Version 3 91 January 23 2007 e Updated so TealScript doesn t relaunch itself after a reset if global recognition is off e Improved stroke calculation to apply squelch factor even to perfect stroke matches single taps Version 3 90 June 25 2006 e Fixed menu selection with 5 way nav on Treo 700p Version 3 89 June 13 2006 e Fixed push to write mode from activating alert manager or underlying application broken in 3 88 Version 3 88 June 14 2006 e Improved graffiti shift drawing to better reflect auto shifting on Treos e Improved automatic relaunching after reset to run even after automatic locking unlocking by TealLock e Improved up stroke mapping to pay attention to Beep on activation change setting when mapped to write anywhere Version 3 86 May 16 2006 e Added new up stroke option to easily change current profile database from within any other program Added new Bottom of field macro stroke code 96 for use at start of macro only Added new End of hard broken line macro stroke code gt for use at start of macro only Added new Start of hard broken line macro stroke code lt for use at start of macro only Added new Top of field macro stroke code 96 for use at start of macro only Improved up stroke recognition to not interfere with TealTools strokes Improved restart seq
26. able e Graffiti Help brings up Graffiti 2 help e Write Anywhere toggles write anywhere screen mode OS5 required e Turn Off turns off the handheld e Change Profile Changes the current profile to the next one found in memory a very useful feature when working with internationalized Hebrew Russian etc profiles New in 3 86 e Do Nothing NOTE In Palm OS versions prior to 3 0 on the PalmPilot Personal and PalmPilot Professional models some features such as beaming will have no effect Other options such as contrast differ in functionality from device to device Maintain entry statistics Maintains and updates a statistics table whenever you enter a keystroke These statistics can help you tune the recognition for better results and can be accessed via the statistics item on the main screen Beep on unrecognized strokes Plays the system error sound when a stroke is entered that does not resemble any entry in the current profile Set this option to give an audio cue to help in recognition Click on stroke entry Plays the system click sound when a valid stroke is entered Note that that this option will slightly slow down text entry recognition on slower Dragonball based handhelds which delay the CPU while playing the click sound Disable Custom GSI Draw When enabled this option keeps TealScript from drawing the Graffiti shift indicator Use this option for devices like the Sony UX50 that replace the standa
27. an modify or delete them in the Edit Strokes screen if you don t wish to use them 22 Chapter 12 Testing Recognition Li iA Use the Test Recognition screen to find out why particular strokes hello worid are being recognized the way they are It is a most useful tool for helping improve recognition with a stroke profile Input 4 P Match 5696 Graphs Overview The recognition test screen provides a text field where you can test how the current stroke profile recognizes your text entry Every time you enter each character the stroke you entered appears on the left while its best match in the profile if found appears on the right A match percentage is displayed showing how close the two strokes are to each other mathematically The higher the number the better the match found At any time you can scroll back through the last few characters entered using the two arrow buttons above the current stroke display seeing why a missed character shape may not have been recognized Improving Recognition Use the test screen to diagnose recognition errors When you enter a stroke you can see how the digitizer hardware sees your input stroke in the left preview window If it looks distorted or sloppy there you ll need to adjust your handwriting If the left preview looks okay you can see what it best matches in the right preview window If the match is incorrect it may indicate that you need to adjust disable or retrain an exis
28. ber of distort entries to handle every possible variation and simply set their cutoff values very high so that they d never interfere with each other In the real world however both recognition speed and memory use are adversely affected by having too many distort entries So while this approach is generally useful in improving recognition use a little restraint when trying it 33 E Customizing graffiti with alternate strokes Once you have good recognition happening you may wish to add your own alternate strokes into the stroke profile for convenience and faster input The default profile has some simple alternates such as a lower case e When adding alternates make sure that they aren t too similar to existing graffiti strokes For instance a lower case n may not be a good idea because many people s graffiti h look too much like an n particularly when they are writing quickly When adding an alternate it s a good idea to flag it as being in the alternate class so even if it works for you you can quickly turn it off temporarily in the main menu for someone else F Automatic tuning If you are a natural tinkerer you may wish to try Automatic Tuning to change the profile in broad strokes to improve recognition If you ve made other changes be careful to clone your profile first before experimenting 34 Appendix A How the matching system works To do detailed profile tuning it might be helpful to know how TealScri
29. crashes when running certain hacks essen 41 can t get the full screen write anywhere option to work on my Treo OS4 handheld 41 The Write anywhere seems to work but can t get any custom or Graffiti 1 strokes to be VOCOGIIZOO 1 MEE EE 42 Can I program TealScript to understand two taps in the number area as an umlaut diaeres shift for entering and characters like Graffiti 2 sss 42 I cannot get Graffiti shift modes to work on my CLIE sssssssese enne 42 Appendix E Revision History e eeeeeceeeeresen esee nennen nnnnenna tenuta 43 Appendix F Contact INO 5 5 2 renun t niinc rnani rias varnim icd dx piu d Enna ee 44 Appendix G Registering 5 iianrsin aic min canna ridic troc na nare a faena tnr iaaiiai 44 Appendix H Products siiani ninata masia tna nr acd aenean aeaea naase aiaa 45 Appendix I Legal Notice egugegeereer eeredeee Bereet Eege DEE ee 47 Introduction Description Thank you for trying TealScript TealScript is a replacement for Graffiti and Graffiti 2 the text recognition systems that come on PalmOS handheld organizers Like those systems TealScript converts pen strokes into letters and numbers though with better accuracy and more entry options Unlike those systems TealScript is fully configurable While TealScript supports a standard set of both one stroke and two stroke characters
30. d as a pen tap instead of a punctuation shift This option allows you use full screen writing without forcing you to hold the pen down to push buttons drop menus etc When this option is on and you need to start a sentence with a punctuation character simply write a shift stroke before the Screen tap The tap will then closely follow a graffiti stroke and will not be interpreted as a screen tap or button press Every once in awhile get a whole word like and or the when I write What is causing this There is a sample macro in the default profile which writes and if you draw an equilateral clockwise triangle from the lower left Another macro generates the if you do a stroke which combines a one stroke T with an H You can delete these entries by 40 going to the edit profile screen and removing either or both macro shortcuts if you don t want to use them Installation I ve upgraded from the older version but I m not seeing the new strokes or improved recognition The improved tuning and new strokes are reflected in the new default profile which is imbedded into the program While you can still use your old profile with the new engine we recommend you do so only if you have made extensive changes you need to keep or have made a custom profile from scratch to support a unique language or stroke set of your own design For normal text entry using Graffiti style strokes we recommend using the new default profile which has
31. de and twice when turning it off Screen Ink Use this option to set the width and color of the on screen ink when using Write Anywhere Draw border line s When this option is set TealScript draws one or more vertical lines on the screen when you write showing the borders between the alphabetic numeric and capitals if present entry areas 13 Chapter 7 Write Anywhere Tuning ln The Write Anywhere Tuning screen accessible by either the on Ruto Detect Screen Writing dia screen Preferences button or drop down menu provides the O Disable if no active text field i i Ef Disable for quick initial taps following options for adjusting Write Anywhere s Auto Detect mode ee These options do not affect Push to write mode which always ecognize strokes on the screen as SE normal taps instead of text if the assumes writing is text if the 5 way select button is held down pen is held down for at least w S8sec within w 2 pixels of the first down point and starting w 1 6 seconds or later after last stroke Disable if no active text field This useful option only turns on write anywhere when there is an active flashing text cursor in a PalmOS text entry field When no text field is present and selected all taps on the screen are interpreted normally without needing to press down harder longer with the pen to register button presses etc Note that some word processors may
32. diting screen accessible from the button on the main Sends Keys 1C screen allows you to make detailed modifications to individual B B c c c c c orifafter Fg entries in the stroke profile Making these modifications is more class standard technical than the overall training process and requires experience Squelch 15 and experimentation Cutoff 65 Vf Alpha Area O Number Area V Normal Mode O Punctuation Mode DD Al Symbol Mode Overview On the Edit Profile screen a list of the strokes in the current profile appears on the left Strokes for letters classified as Standard appear in TealScript Help and are shown in bold in the list In a complete stroke profile there are entries for not only letters and numbers but for non printing characters such as a Shift operation or menu Command stroke There are also often several stroke entries for a single character These exist to make the profile more robust to variations in the way a stroke can be entered When you select an entry from the list the shape of this stroke appears in the box above On the right are various adjustable settings corresponding to the stroke Tap New to create a new stroke entry Del to delete the current selection or Retrain to redefine the stroke shape associated with the current selection You can also select Clone from the drop down menu to duplicate the current selection HINT You can quickly go to an entry
33. e aid of some powerful automated tools TealScript provides Chapter 2 Starting the Program launcher You ll start on the main control screen the main starting point for tuning After installing begin using TealScript by starting it from the Palm application and configuring TealScript UNES 1 1 1 1 When first installed TealScript will create a default stroke profile If E Peeferencus o are created properly the profile name will appear next to the label D Profile with a pop up list that displays all installed profiles and a Faw statistics provides choices for deleting duplicating or creating new profiles Profile w TS Std Profile 245 rec 4 TealScript Help x Test Recognition LP Train Profile Edit Stroke Entries Enable Globally Normally you ll want to turn on the Enable Globally option on this screen which enables TealScript recognition using the current profile even when you leave to start another program Thus setting this checkmark selects TealScript as your default text input system When this option is not selected TealScript s replacement system is only active within the program itself and the default Palm Graffiti recognition stays in effect outside TealScript NOTE On Pre OS5 handhelds TealScript s global recognition turns off when the system is reset either due to a crash or from a manual pinhole reset When this occurs you only need to restart TealScript to re enable recognition Optio
34. e screenas easy but it makes it slightly more difficult to start a sentence normal taps instead of text if the T pen is held down for at least with a punctuation character as the punctuation shift is also w 08sec within e 2 pixels a quick tap An easy way to do this is to enter an extra shift of the first down point and starting Stroke first before the punctuation shift so that the tap will v 1 6 seconds then quickly follow another writing stroke and thus be or later after last stroke assumed to be writing as well If the disable for quick initial taps option is NOT checked then quick taps are assumed by default to be writing not screen taps In this mode taps on buttons may sometimes need to be held down still slightly longer than when writing text This often feels equivalent to just pressing harder on the screen when selecting a button Writing Areas It s important to note that when writing on the full screen the location of the alpha number border is still maintained and extended upwards meaning that you ll still need to write on the left side of the screen for letters and the right for numbers or upper and lower halves of the screen if running on a landscape oriented device For devices with 3 panel wide modes all three writing areas are extended upwards In landscape modes the graffiti writing areas are stretched horizontally to fill the screen This differed from older versions of TealScript pre 3 7 that
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37. en accessible by either the on screen On pen swipe from Graffiti Preferences button or drop down menu provides the following area or screenbottomupto options for program interface and general usage the to top of the screen w TealScript Help V Maintain entry statistics O Beep on unrecognized strokes O Click on stroke entry O Disable custom GSI draw UX50 O Filter initial pen bounce may reduce entry speed On Pen Swipe Up This option determines which feature to activate when a stroke is made from within the text entry area to the top of the screen This menu takes the place of the system preferences pen options when TealScript is active Choices for this item include e Backlight toggles on off the device backlight if applicable e Keyboard brings up the system on screen keyboard if an active text field exists e TealScript Help brings up TealScript help e Turn off and Lock locks and turns off the handheld also supports TealLock if present e Beam Data issues the menu shortcut B typically mapped to the beam command e TealGlance brings up the TealGlance reminder screen if installed e Contrast brings up the device dependent contrast screen if applicable e Launcher exits the application and goes to the application launcher e Menu activates the menu bar e Find brings up the system global find dialog 10 e Brightness brings up the device dependent brightness control if applic
38. ered during use Yet it s still 38 useful in culling out confusing or redundant distort entries If used some manual distort entries will likely need to be added after some manual testing after Automatic Tuning Step 4 Evolve profile fiuteTune Running Once started automatic tuning will run in a continuous loop Evolving 244rec 152 continually evolving the profile to improve recognition Displayed Hits 5 100 are the total number of recognized and unrecognized strokes in the Misses 0 e sample database as well as the current change mutation which is Trying Set X2 Gain to 7 being tried and the ones that have been successful Accepted Changes 66 Set V Gain to 7 Change cutoff c by 15 Set Em Gain to 1 stop the process Tuning can take many hours so you may wish to leave the device running on a cradle overnight Automatic shutoff is Tap and hold to stop disabled while automatic tuning is in progress NOTE Tuning will continue until you tap and hold on the screen to Step 5 Manually fix up entries When complete Automatic Tuning will inevitably require some manual adjustment to the stroke profile Most of these changes will involve multi stroke characters As the system does not always know which strokes in the sample database were supposed to be single strokes and which were intended to be the last stroke of multi stroke characters some stroke entries may need to be multi stroke key actions added o
39. es Though not often used you can keep a stroke from being falsely detected by increasing the squelch value Use care when setting this value however as too high a squelch will make a stroke unrecognizable Cutoff Set a cutoff value to define a minimum match percentage for a stroke When TealScript compares an entered stroke to an entry it generates a percentage match value indicating how similar the two strokes are This value can be seen in the Recognition Test screen If a cutoff value is set the percentage match value must exceed the cutoff value or that profile entry will not be considered a match even if no other entry matches nearly as well In practice using a cutoff value has proven generally more effective in preventing a particular entry from being falsely detected than the squelch value Cutoff values are commonly used when creating distorted entries which are similar in shape to other letters Setting a high cutoff keeps the entry from interfering with other entries reducing false hits but lets the entry handle cases in which the entered stroke closely matches that entry Entry Areas Active in Alpha Area When checked this stroke is valid entered in the alpha entry area on the left side of the graffiti area Set this checkmark for letters and symbols Active in Number Area When checked this stroke is valid entered in the numeric entry area on the right side of the graffiti area Set this checkmark for number HI
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41. implement their own text entry systems to support more fonts When this is the case full screen text entry will be turned off if this option is enabled Disable for quick initial taps Quick taps in a single place can be interpreted either as normal screen taps and button presses or as taps designated for the text entry system a punctuation shift in the default profile By default quick taps are interpreted as text requiring a slight tap and hold action to press buttons select menus and perform other normal screen tasks When this option is set however quick taps are interpreted normally so tapping buttons and menus feel normal This removes the primary disadvantage of enabling full screen writing The downside however is that punctuation shifted characters can then only be entered using full screen writing when immediately following another text entry stroke entered either on the screen or standard text entry area The time delay in which the tap must follow the last character is specified in the after last stroke time item described below HINT when using this option to enter text starting with a punctuation shift first enter a stroke for a capitalization shift pen up first before the punctuation shift tap 14 Normal tap if held down for XX sec This parameter specifies how long the pen must remain in one spot before being interpreted as a screen tap instead of a punctuation shift which is also entered as a tap in
42. ing start of stroke e Added new push to write mode enabling write anywhere screen writing by holding down 5 way control when writing on screen e Added option to draw alpha number border line s when using write anywhere mode e Added support for keyboard shift indicator on Treo 650 43 Added new alternate graffiti orientations and layouts for lef handed use Added Edit Match button in test screen to jump to a matched stroke Improved and rearranged preference screens to be more clear Changed turn off up stroke mapping to use key code that should support turning off in cradle Changed auto detected graffiti layout for Treo600 650 to centered Fixed compatibility with HandEra 330 Appendix F Contact Info TealScript by TealPoint Software 1998 2008 All Rights Reserved TealPoint Software TealScript 454 Las Gallinas Ave 318 San Rafael CA 94903 3618 We look forward to hearing from you Please visit us at www tealpoint com or email us at support tealpoint com Appendix G Registering Registering allows you to use the program past the 30 day expiration period and turns off registration reminders Currently you may register by snail mail or online with a credit card and a secured server from the store where you downloaded the software For the first option send the following information on a sheet of paper separate from your payment e Product Name e E Mail Address e HotSync User ID Pilot Name Requi
43. it can be trained to recognize your own distinct handwriting and reduce common errors You can use TealScript to add your own new strokes and multi character macros or delete and modify existing strokes to correctly recognize strokes that might otherwise confuse the built in recognition You can also use TealScript to add Graffiti recognition to a devices like the Treo 650 which have no native Graffiti support Contents This archive contains the following files Program files TEALSCRP PRC The TealScript program file RESCRIPT PRC An optional TealMaster system extension to automatically reinstall TealScript after a system reset for older OS3 and OS4 devices only TEALMSTR PRC The system extensions manager for ReScript trial SETUP EXE The Windows easy installer program Document files SCRPDOC PDF This document in Adobe Acrobat PDF format SCRPDOC HTM This document in HTML format sans images SCRPDOC PRC This document in TealDoc format REGISTER HTM TealPoint Registration form in HTML format REGISTER TXT TealPoint Registration form in text format Installing Under Windows If you are running Windows you may double click on the TPSetup exe easy installer program to select and install the files to your handheld Other Systems Use the Palm Install Tool that comes with your organizer to install the program file m TEALSCRP PRC This manual is provided in this archive as the PalmPilot document install SCRPDOC PRC which you may view with o
44. lp TealScript distinguish between taps meant to activate on screen buttons and controls from taps meant as text entry TealScript looks at where on the screen you are tapping what buttons are held down how the pen moves when it first hits the screen and when the last character written was entered Strokes are interpreted as writing when e they start away from an edge where buttons and drag bars typically are and e they quickly follow another writing stroke or e the pen was moving as soon as it hit the screen Strokes are interpreted as screen taps when e they start near a screen edge or e they DO NOT quickly follow a writing stroke and e ihe pen paused briefly before starting to move Thus when writing text it is important not to pause the pen on the screen before writing a letter Conversely button presses should be held in one spot without accidentally jostling the pen If a pen swipe is needed say to select text the pen should be held in one spot for an instant before starting to move it Quick screen taps in Auto Detect Mode Write finywhere Tuning Write Anywhere Tuning allows you to select how a quick Ruto Detect Screen Writing single tap on the screen is interpreted If you checkmark O Disable if no active text field the setting disable for quick initial taps then quick taps are V Disable for quick initial taps interpreted as button presses This makes button presses Recognize strokes on th
45. nally you can use the included TealMaster system extension ReScript to automatically do this for you Simply install TealScript and the TealMaster or another system extensions manager and check Rescript to turn it on Arm based handhelds running OS5 or higher automatically restart after a reset and do not require ReScript or TealMaster Additional Options Once you ve had a chance to try out the default recognition you may want to return to the program to learn some of its finer points try out some new options or tune the recognition to match your own preferences and writing style The main screen provides access to a number of program features which are covered in the following chapters Chapter 3 Write Anywhere Mode CEU Unea The write anywhere option allows one to write graffiti strokes on the upper display portion of the screen in addition to the standard text entry area if present This option is useful on devices that do not normally support pen based entry such as keyboard equipped Treo 600 650 handhelds or units with software or hardware collapsible writing areas like the Sony NX70 or Palm Tungsten T On screen writing has an additional advantage in that when writing on the screen the ink from the writing is visible making it much easier to correctly write strokes on devices whose visible displays do not extend down into the text writing area IMPORTANT NOTE When using the pen on the screen taps canno
46. nd optionally create a new distort entry based on that stroke if it looks like a valid character More detailed instructions for the four basic profile tuning methods appear below Fixing Problems A Fixing mismatches due to sloppiness Be nice to the digitizer You can improve recognition using a few tricks to improve how the digitizing hardware reads in the pen positions Write large The digitizer is more robust to pen jitter if the letters are written big in the graffiti area Push down The digitizer can be inaccurate if the pen is not held down hard enough on older devices Press with a little pressure as you would a ballpoint pen on paper You may want to try a textured screen protector which adds some pen like resistance to your pen strokes Keep the pen moving If you stop the pen mid stroke or move too slowly jittery noise can be introduced into your pen stroke confusing recognition See your writing Use a program like TealEcho to see your graffiti ink as you write This helps greatly in making sure you close your o s cross your x s and otherwise make repeatable and recognizable letters Stay vertical If you start to rotate your handheld and slant your writing your graffiti stroke can start to resemble letters you don t want to write Keep your writing vertical or at least consistent 32 B Fixing mismatches due to handwriting style Retrain Stroke Entry If your graffiti for a single stroke is consistent b
47. ng values Merge distort strokes Alters existing distort entries to better match unmatched entries in the sample database Replace distort strokes Replaces existing distort entries with unmatched strokes Create new distort strokes Creates new entries in the database based on unmatched strokes Delete unused distort strokes Removes distort entries which don t help recognition Modify squelch values Changes the squelch value of existing distort entries Modify cutoff values Changes the cutoff value of existing distort entries Limit max entries If adding entries stops if specified limit is reached When selecting AutoTune options there is no single correct process to follow but here are a few guidelines we found during use which may help e When AutoTuning the default profile we changed advanced tuning values first and then came back in a second pass to allow adjustment of the other settings after advanced tuning seemed to stabilize e Left on its own the engine could always achieve 100 numerical accuracy by simply adding distort strokes for all entries in the sample database and yet this would not necessarily be representative of new strokes which were in between ones in the sample database Thus it s useful to add new strokes only if the total limit is capped to a reasonable limit e Removing distort strokes can also remove useful strokes if the sample database is not completely representative of the possible strokes ent
48. on t look like other letters you can retrain the Y or add an alternate stroke for Y which won t conflict with other letters It looks mostly like the letter I wanted but is somewhat distorted It is not representative of my handwriting but does not resemble another character Solution Try creating a distort entry in the test or statistics screen to handle this stroke the next time you enter it If the letter represents occasional sloppiness but is still distinct from other letters a distort can often be the fix 3l It looks more like the letter wanted than the one that was detected but it s somewhat similar to a Distort entry in the stroke profile for that other letter Solution Try raising the cutoff value for that Distort entry that s interfering to limit the range of operation for that entry It looks the way I naturally write that letter but it s not a standard graffiti stroke Solution You may be able to create a custom entry in the profile to handle the letter written that way The stroke must be unique enough not to interfere with a similar stroke however You can also identify and solve problems while using TealScript in your everyday writing When you encounter a recognition error stop as soon as you notice the error If it s within the last 5 characters entered run TealScript and go to the statistics screen There you can scroll though the last 5 strokes see the entered stroke a
49. ong as the anomalous stroke doesn t resemble another legitimate stroke you can create a distort entry to handle that case in the future In other words following the above example you want to create an entry that says that an incomplete S is also an S so that both versions will get recognized From the test screen you can easily add a new stroke entry to cover a recently added stroke Use the left and right arrows to find the stroke in question and tap the Add Entry button to create a new entry with that stroke When you encounter a recognition problem outside TealScript you can find and add an entry from within the Statistics Screen When making an entry alias be sure to set the class to Distort so that training operations will ignore the stroke Otherwise repeated global training will tend to water down the aliases for each character until they all look alike D Fixing mismatches due to added distort entries Set Cutoff Value If an added distort stroke entry starts to interfere with other strokes coming up when it shouldn t you can give it a cutoff value to narrow the range of its effectiveness Essentially a high cutoff value tells the system to ignore the distort entry unless an entered stroke matches it very closely Set the value just high enough to filter out invalid matches but still low enough to matches entries when you want Theoretically you can achieve near perfect recognition if you could create a huge num
50. pt works When a stroke is entered into the graffiti area it s returned from the operating system as a series of coordinates TealScript takes these coordinates and mathematically compares them to each of the entries in the stroke profile generating a mathematical Match Percentage number for every entry in the stroke profile The entry with the highest Match Percentage is returned as the best match If an entry has a squelch value set then it s Match Percentage is artificially tweaked downward to de emphasize the entry This makes the entry come up less often when an entered stroke is not a clear match for any profile entry but still keeps the entry in the running If an entry has a cutoff value then its Match Percentage has to exceed the cutoff or it s set to zero before comparison with the other entries is made Thus the cutoff confines a profile entry to a very narrow range of effectiveness while the squelch is a general overall adjustment This makes the latter useful for coarse tuning when creating a profile and the former better for fine tuning specific recognition problems In determining the Match Percentage value several factors are used in weighing various criteria While we can t provide a detailed explanation of these factors here they can be modified via the Advanced Tuning menu It is unlikely that adjusting the weighing factors will result in much improved recognition but for curiosity s sake the factors are briefly
51. r 11 TealScript Stroke Help Use TealScript Help to see how to make strokes defined in the current profile Broken down by category the strokes shown are actually pulled from current profile entries so they automatically reflect any training or custom strokes that may have been added NOTE The default TealScript profile supports many alternate ways of entering the many letters and symbols Those marked as Standard in the stroke profile are shown in TealScript Help Multi Stroke Characters Many of the letters can be entered with a single pen stroke while for others the standard entry method requires two or more strokes For these initial strokes are shown in gray with the final stroke in solid black When entering these characters the exact placement of the strokes relative to each other need not be exactly as pictured since this is difficult to do on handhelds which do not have a text entry area which is visible i e part of the active display However these strokes must overlap or be no more than a half character width apart to be definitively recognized as part of a multi stroke character Alphabetic Strokes TealScript Help The TealScript text entry alphabet is intuitive and easy to remember resembling as much as possible basic block capital letters written Enter these strokes on the left e side of the text entry area with as few pen lifts as possible Two letters such as A and F consist of only the first st
52. r case The visual shift indicator may still automatically be drawn shifted in some PalmOS versions but its effect will be ignored unless it was manually turned on by a graffiti stroke or unless the stroke was drawn in a designated EZ Caps zone see below Easy Capitals The Easy Caps option effectively creates a third drawing region between the number and text entry regions This is handy on devices which do not support the Graffiti 2 wide entry layouts that define an official separate caps entry area When you draw letter on this dividing line they ll become automatically capitalized removing the need for using the shift stroke EZ Caps can be set to work in three modes 1 centered 2 starting and 3 crossed In centered mode letters are capitalized if the center of the stroke falls on the dividing line In starting mode however the letter is capitalized if the beginning of the stroke begins on the dividing line In crossed mode the stroke is capitalized if any part of it crosses the dividing line NOTE When entering strokes for L T and J in centered mode note that the center of the letter is calculated as the center of the bounding box defined by your whole stroke Thus even if the vertical part of the stroke is right on the line if the horizontal arm is too long the actual center of the stroke may not be aZ Incorrect on the line ec Multi stroke timing Some characters such
53. r removed In addition as mentioned earlier extra distort entries may need to be added for variations which just did not happen to get used when generating the sample stroke database Step 6 Clean up files When done you may wish to re enter the AutoTune screen and use the Del All button to delete the sample stroke database named TS AutoTune Strokes PDB to free the memory it uses If you decide to discard the changes made with AutoTuning you can create a new profile or use a cloned version of the old one if you created one Remember to restore the advanced tuning parameters too however if you don t want to keep those changes either 39 Appendix D Frequently Asked Questions As we cannot control the style and robustness of other products we cannot guarantee compatibility with PalmOS applications beyond those included from Palm Computing However we try to resolve compatibility issues as best we can l only want to use Graffiti 1 strokes How do I turn off multi stroke characters like T Set the multi stroke timing in preferences to disable to turn off all multi stroke characters at once If you only want to disable certain combinations you can edit them in the stroke profile If the second stroke of the sequence you want to disable would normally generate its own character look it up by this letter For instance the second horizontal stroke in a T normally generates a space so edit all space entries to di
54. rd Graffiti system shift inidicator with its on incompatible indicator Filter initial pen bounce When enabled this option filters out extra symbol shift taps that are accidentally caused by bouncing the pen at the start of a stroke Instead symbol shifts are only recognized if there is a clear pause after them before starting the next stroke New in 3 94 11 Input Area Use this option to tell TealScript what the layout of your text writing area is Normally the Autodetect option is sufficient however the following choices are sometimes necessary Graffiti Layout Auto Detect Middle If you are running a Sony NR70 NX70 or similar handheld to tell TealScript that the line separating the alphabetic and numeric portions of the graffiti area are centered on the handheld instead of slightly offset to the right as they are on most other models This is also the recommended layout for devices like the Treo600 and Treo650 which have no dedicated Graffiti area Right Select this option to force the normal alphanumeric layout with letters on the left and a numbers in a smaller area on the right This layout is normally correctly autodetected on devices with dedicated Graffiti writing areas Left Similar to the Right option this makes the right entry area slightly larger than the left side Wide Select this option to force detection of a wide three panel graffiti layout that fills the full width of the screen This option is
55. red for Passkey generation It can be found on the main screen of the HotSync application on the Pilot as Welcome or in the corner on a Palmlll or higher e Check drawn off a US Bank or Money Order for 29 95 US No international checks or money orders please 44 Appendix H Products Products Visit us online for our complete product line including SHORTCIRCUIT http www tealpoint com softshrt htm A new twist on gameplay fused from your all time action puzzle favorite games connect falling conduit pieces into explosive loops in this frantic race against the clock SUDOKUADDICT http www tealpoint com softsudo htm Sudoku Addict brings to your handheld the addictive worldwide puzzle craze that has displaced crossword puzzles in many newspapers in Great Britain and Japan TEALAGENT http www tealpoint com softagnt htm Get news movie times stock quotes driving directions web pages and more without need for a wireless connection TealAgent fetches and formats web based content for offline viewing TEALALIAS http www tealpoint com softalia htm Free up memory and make the most of external expansion cards Placeholder Alias shortcut files automatically find load and launch apps and data from external SD cards increasing free main memory TEALAUTO http www tealpoint com softauto htm Track and graph automobile mileage service and expenses with TealAuto the complete log book for your car or any v
56. rnates preferences option and TealScript Help Standard Standard strokes can be modified by global training and appear in TealScript Help For each output character or action designate one standard entry Alternate Create alternate entries to define your own completely new ways of entering a character Alternate strokes do not appear in TealScript Help and will be turned off if the preferences item Allow alternate strokes in unchecked Distorted Create distorted entries to handle occasions when an entered text stroke is still visually recognizable but is too sloppy or otherwise varies too much from the standard shape for TealScript to recognize it Distorted entries are unaffected by the global training operation accessible from the main screen 26 Squelch Set a squelch value to de emphasize the current entry forcing the recognition system to bypass this entry as a match if there is another stroke entry that mathematically matches nearly as well The squelch value adds a multiplier when calculating the match difference used to evaluate how closely each stroke entry matches one that was entered A higher squelch value makes the match values look worse than it really is de emphasizing the stroke overall This value can compensate for the fact that simpler strokes with few angles are generally easier to enter and match than more complex ones Without it simpler characters would tend to come up more often as incorrect match
57. rofile Delete Deletes the current profile If no other profiles exist a standard profile will be created Details Leeroy Register Brings up a dialog setting whether changes to the current profile will Profile v TS Std Profile 244rec be backed up to the desktop during HotSync gi Preferences Vf Enable Globally D TealScript Help ex Test Recognition Details PR Backup at HotSync Snapshot stroke shapes The stroke shapshot feature is used to save and restore changes to stroke shapes made during training The initial shapes of all stroke entries are automatically backed up the first time a stroke is re trained When selected the current profile shapes are saved as permanent and are copied over the backed up versions causing future revert operations to return to the current shapes The stroke shapshot features does not save keys cutoff values or other parameters associated with stroke entries Revert to last shapshot When selected the revert option restores stroke shapes from their backed up versions or to their initial shapes if no previous snapshot operation had been selected 30 Chapter 16 Improving Recognition Tuning a stroke profile is really more of an art than a science However in most cases improving recognition accuracy involves two steps identifying the cause of problems and modifying the profile to compensate for the problem Identifying Problems Test Recognition i
58. roke of J B CIO those letters because the second cross stroke is not necessary to z differentiate those strokes from other letters LARUE F G H I J Two other letters H and Y are entered in lower case the latter in lt q CIMINO cursive to minimize the number of strokes necessary to complete VK Ll M W 96 them Four strokes K Q T and X are normally written with two overlapping strokes although single stroke alternates exist For eJ STIS TET P Q R S T instance to write a Q one would enter the two strokes in sequence on top of each other z 2 So v Alphabet In order to enter the letter O followed by a symbol shift a sequence which uses the same two strokes either a brief pause should be added after entering the first stroke or the two strokes should be entered adjacent to each other in the writing area with a half space between them 19 Numeric Strokes TealScript Help Enter these strokes on the right side of the text entry area 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 H 8 9 Numbers Navigation Strokes TealScript Help Enter these strokes to navigate the cursor Left Next Prey Return Right Space w Navigation BkSpace System Strokes TealScript Help Enter these strokes to perform simple system functions Undo Copy Cut Paste CapShiftCommandPunctSh Shrtcut System ww Even more intuitive than alphabetic strokes are number
59. s you do not return and save changes from the Write Anywhere Apps screen 16 Chapter 9 Editing Shortcuts Graffiti Shortcuts allow you to quickly enter a word phrase or commonly used string of characters with only a few strokes and are standard on all Graffiti equipped handhelds Shortcuts begin with a shortcut symbol shaped like a lower case cursive L followed by typically one to four unique letters When a shortcut is entered TealScript backspaces over the entered letters and the shortcut symbol and inserts the full text the shortcut represents ShortCuts br Breakfast di Dinner ds Date Stamp dts Date and Time Stamp lu Lunch me Meeting ts Time Stamp The Edit Shortcuts screen under Preferences allows you to edit PalmOS system shortcut combinations This screen replicates the shortcut PalmOS preferences panel that is present on most devices but is missing from the Treo 650 TealLock s screen and the system panel when present are equivalent and can be used interchangeably 17 Chapter 10 Showing Statistics Statistics The statistics screen shows various statistics about your previous Total stroke count 58 text entry under the current profile such as stroke count writing rate Average writingrate 44 in strokes per minute corrections and unrecognized strokes Detected corrections 13 Unrecognized strokes 0 Top false misses Also shown are the top false misses charac
60. sable a 2 stroke T When use the Write anywhere feature it sometimes doesn t work only sometimes get ink When you tap on the screen it can either be recognized as a text entry stroke or used to activate buttons and other controls TealScript differentiates between the two by seeing if the stroke follows a previous character and if the pen is moving when it hits the screen or if it stays briefly in one place Knowing this you can usually improve results by making sure the pen is moving when it hits the screen to be recognized as a character and pause in one spot briefly if necessary to force recognition as a screen control tap You can also use the write anywhere prefs menu in TealScript to fine tune how the program differentiates between a screen tap and a graffiti stroke I can t enter punctuation characters in full screen write anywhere mode When you tap on the screen it can either be recognized as a text entry stroke or used to activate buttons and other controls TealScript differentiates between the two by seeing if the stroke follows a previous character and if the pen is moving when it hits the screen or if it stays briefly in one place When the pen is quickly tapped on the screen as in a punctuation shift the behavior can be changed in TealScript preferences Under the Write anywhere prefs menu if you have the off on quick taps option set a quick tap of the screen not following another stroke gets interprete
61. t be interpreted at the same time as both writing and as taps on buttons etc TealScript has to decide which one you were intending to do when writing on the screen and either recognize it as a letter or pass it through to the program below If you are having problems either pressing buttons or writing text carefully read the rest of this chapter Push to write Mode The easiest way to write on screen is to hold down the center select button on the 5 way control when writing This mode is called Push to write mode It is the recommended way to write on the screen because there is no ambiguity about whether one is trying to write a letter or tap on text and controls in the window NOTE When writing in this mode you should try to start writing soon after pressing down the button and continue to hold down the 5 way for at least one second even when entering a single letter Otherwise PalmOS might register the button press to call up a clock application launcher or the system attention manager depending on your device Auto Detect Mode In Auto Detect mode you simply write on screen at any time and TealScript attempts to detect whether you re writing tapping or selecting based on the position and speed of the pen stroke To best use this mode it s important to know how the program does this Distinguishing between text and taps in Auto Detect Mode When writing on the screen you can adjust your strokes or set tuning options to he
62. ters you entered after S correcting a previous attempt and the top false hits characters that y ub were entered that you really didn t want False misses are tabulated as characters entered after a backspace character while Recent strokes entered i Rdd makes new profile entry false hits are detected as characters following a backspace 4 gt Activating Statistics are tabulated if the statistics checkmark is set in the main screen and are reset whenever the profile lookup system is updated to reflect changes made in the current profile Fine Tuning Recognition Typically letters showing up as false hits correspond to similar shaped strokes in the false misses field A false hit and false miss pair can indicate two strokes that are too similar or a stroke entry that has an adjustment value that needs to be set to a more or less restrictive value See the appendix for more hints on improving recognition You can also use the statistics screen to periodically to identify and fix common problems in your text recognition during normal use Immediately after encountering a recognition error in another program you can visit the statistics screen in TealScript and scroll through the last few entered strokes to see the shape of the stroke you actually entered If it s a valid shape that should have been recognized you can create a new profile entry based on that stroke using the Add Entry button 18 Chapte
63. ting stroke entry for better recognition Select Edit Match to edit that entry s data See the Appendix for hints on how to adjust stroke profile entries for better recognition You may also wish to create a new profile entry based on that stroke to improve recognition Do this by clicking on the Add Stroke button You ll be asked to set basic parameters for the stroke including the key character it represents 23 Chapter 13 Training the Profile Overview Train Profile The training screen allows easy fine tuning of whole groups of strokes in the current profile simply by writing them Use this option to do minor quick adjustments to the stroke profile to accommodate minor variations in your handwriting such as slanting letters In general it won t help with more severe cases of stroke confusion For these cases use the more specific training methods in the edit or training screens Training can help fine tune strokes to take into account small variations in handwriting such as curviness and slant Starting a training session ETH 5 5 When the Train Profile option is selected you ll be presented with Enter text writing only the a list of character groups to train such as alphabetic or numeric pee rere ST eer eee Select one and you ll be brought to the training screen and asked to sequences Alternates okay enter a series of strokes one at a time ThB quick brown fox ju mps over the lazy dog Inp
64. uence after soft reset to occur automatically without waiting for user to switch apps Fixed Lock and Off up stroke mapping to return to current app when TealLock is running Version 3 83 November 7 2005 e Added support for Write Anywhere status bar icon on TX and LifeDrive devices Added updating of Write Anywhere status bar icon to reflect TealScript Write Anywhere state Added new if crossing border autocaps mode Fixed leftover frame graphics from updating popup status window Fixed multistroke characters to ignore non overlapping strokes Fixed support for multistroke macro strokes Version 3 82 September 15 2005 e Added prefs screen for editing Graffiti Shortcuts for Treo650 which doesn t have one in System Preferences Added optimizations for better 5 way navigation ordering Added lockout of 5 way direction arrows after starting writing in push to write mode Improved compatibility of push to write mode with third party party apps Improved look of popup message windows when updating profile or reinstalling after reset Updated default initial profile to deemphasize sample and for and the macro strokes Updated TealScript default settings for write anywhere auto detect mode to lean more towards normal screen taps e Fixed detection of alpha num caps areas when using auto caps if starting mode Version 3 76 July 20 2005 Improved write anywhere mode to catch initial pen down point even when cpu is occupied dur
65. ulates press of app launcher silkscreen button Menu simulates press of menu silkscreen button Find simulates press of find silkscreen button Button1 simulates a press of the first application button Button2 simulates a press of the second application button Button3 simulates a press of the third application button Button4 simulates a press of the fourth application button Button5 simulates a press of the programmable silkscreen button calc Backspace backspace key Enter enter key Tab tab character Hold pauses text entry v second Percent enter a percentage symbol normally TealGlance popup TealGlance window if installed Undo undo text editing Cut cut selected text to clipboard Copy copy selected text to clipboard Paste paste text from clipboard Select All select all text in active text field Keyboard bring up text keyboard Backlight toggle backlight if present Brightness adjust brightness if applicable Contrast adjust contrast if applicable Lock and off turn off and lock device Graffiti help show Graffiti 2 help TealScript help show TealScript help 20 Chapter 15 Main Menu Items The TealScript drop down menu contains various useful functions for manipulating stroke profiles These include New Creates a new profile entry either pre filled with default profile stroke or empty Rename Renames the current p
66. ur separate program TealDoc The Palm installer can be run as a separate program or from its icon on the Palm Desktop Instructions on how to use the Palm installer are in the Palm Handbook that came with your Pilot PalmPilot or WorkPad PalmOS3 and PalmOS4 Handhelds Only After a crash or system reset TealScript normally needs to be launched again to restart recognition on pre OS5 devices You can automate this by installing the system extension ReScript and a system extensions manager We provide a trial version of our manager TealMaster if you do not already have it or another system extensions manager such as HackMaster installed on your system Use the PalmPilot installer to install RESCRIPT PRC and TEALMSTR PRC Then run the TealMaster program on the PalmPilot and check on the checkbox next to ReScript TealScript will be started the first time after you leave TealMaster Arm based handhelds running OS5 do not require ReScript to restart after a reset WARNING Once you enable TealScript global recognition before updating or deleting the program in the future you must first turn off global recognition or the update or delete process cannot finish Likewise system extensions like ReScript must also be turned off before deleting or reinstalling NOTE When using TealScript be sure to turn off the Graffiti 2 write anywhere option in system preferences if present before using TealScript s own write anywhere mode Also turn off any
67. ut Match Enter Next Entering Strokes Enter all the strokes carefully ignoring any shifting strokes you may ordinarily need to do when entering the characters Enter the strokes naturally but slowly and carefully enough to be representative of your handwriting When entering multi stroke characters enter the last stroke only You will be prompted on the right with each stroke before you enter it but you needn t use the exact suggested stroke for a particular character if there are active alternates in the current profile The system will match each stroke to its closest non distort entry in the stroke profile and adjust that entry to resemble the stroke you entered If you make a mistake during training you can use the Revert Profile menu item described later in this document to restore trained shapes to their last saved shapes or initial factory shapes if the shapes have never been saved IMPORTANT NOTE When doing overall training with this option strokes in the profile are modified so enter your strokes carefully as they must be both representative of your normal handwriting and unambiguously different from similarly shaped letters Careless training can make recognition worse requiring hand tweaking in the editing screen or restoring of the profile from previously backed up shapes selectable from menu item to undo changes to the stroke profile 24 Chapter 14 Editing Stroke Entries Edit Strokes The Stroke E
68. ut the mismatch was simply due to a difference in style between your handwriting and the desired stroke in the profile try retraining that entry to more closely reflect your own writing Be sure that the stroke is still close enough to the standard stroke and is not too close to the stroke for another character however Do this by using the retrain option in the Edit Profile screen after finding the entry that best matches your own handwriting If all of your writing is slightly different due to say left handedness you can use the global training option on the main Screen to train whole groups of profile entries at a time C Fixing mismatches due to slight sloppiness Add a Distort Entry Most of the time mismatches occur because a quickly entered stroke was misshapen just enough to make look too different from the reference stroke in the profile Typical examples are stroke head or tails that are too long or too short loops that are too big or too small or characters that are angled one way or another In these cases you never want to retrain the stroke entry because the entered stroke is somewhat of an anomaly For instance if you have a tendency to sometimes make an incomplete S character you shouldn t retrain the system to recognize your S as the only S or you might make the system incapable of later recognizing a full complete S Still you want even an anomalous stroke to be recognized as the character was intended As l
69. values keeping only those which improve recognition when measured against the sample stroke database at 500 letters and 200 numbers WARNING this feature should only be used if you are comfortable with manual editing of profile databases as some manual inspection and editing is almost always needed afterwards When trying automatic tuning use the clone profile feature to back up any changes to the current profile as the snapshot feature only backs up stroke shapes not other changes automatic tuning can make Also if you have manually changed any automatic tuning values make a note of the current settings as they too can be changed Step 1 Entering sample strokes The first step in automatic tuning is to build a large database of sample strokes which will be used to tune the current profile Do this by tapping the Add Alpha or Add Nums button to begin adding strokes using the same process as manual training The goal is to create a database which is representative of all individuals who might use the handheld and which contains any variation on a letter which might be entered and still expected to be recognized Thus enter strokes carefully but representative of how you would normally write If another person uses the handheld have them enter strokes as well If letters are sometimes entered using alternate strokes be sure to include these as well When done there should be at least 500 letters and 200 numbers The

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