On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Carl Worth wrote:
> Richard Cohen writes:
> > I think I like fscrib better than xstroke - it's nicer to have less
> > glyphs to learn and mode strokes than a load of glyphs which don't seem
> > to bear all that much resemblence to 'English'.
>
> Stay tuned.
>
> Next version of xstroke will allow strokes for mode switching, (for
> thems that prefer that sort of thing).
>
> Hoping to get this in place before Familiar v0.5 sneaks out...
Good stuff, thanks. I spent 2 years with a PalmOS machine, so I have no
problem with mode strokes - for that matter, I tend to use modes quite a lot
while typing too :-)
> I would be interested to know how you think the recognition itself
> compares between the two programs, (as opposed to the currently
> implemented alphabet).
I would say the recognition is better in xstroke than fscrib, with the
exception of certain letters where there are two similar glyphs (e and S
particularly comes to mind). One thing I have noticed is that fscrib seems
to be better with smaller letters, and xstroke with larger - the center of
my screen is getting a bit scratched up, and the recognition is less good
there, so I tend to try to write around the edge of the screen, and xstroke
suffers with that.
Certain letters were persistant problems with fscrib (d in particular), in
that drawing what felt like the same glyph twice produced different letters.
With xstroke, it feels like mistakes are caused by my sloppiness, rather
than the engine getting confused, so redrawing the glyph slightly larger and
slightly more slowly fixes it.
> -Carl
Cheers
Richard
Received on Tue Jul 24 08:39:29 2001
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