RE: Pilots/Graffiti

James W. Barr (jbarr@Mcs.Net)
Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:16:21 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 Jerry@eteklabs.com wrote:
> it would be nice if there was a set of formations of input characters, and you
> could choose which ones produced which letters... I'm always messing up the
> 'v' and 'u', and can't get the hang of Q's, and my 'n's keep coming up as 'w's
> I should re-learn how to program in macros... I did it once on my gridpad 1910
> (which recently got a crack in the LCD, and 1/2 of the screen no longer works...
> *sniff*) it was interesting, but it took forever to enter in the macro sequence...
>
For 'v', make the v normally, but start at the upper right, and draw it to
the left: (*=starting point)

*
\ /
\/

For 'Q', make an "O", but start at the bottom and go clockwise.

__
/ \
| |
\ /
*

For 'n', just make a capital 'N' starting from the left with no initial
down stroke:

|\ |
| \ |
| \|
*

Now, these "hints work on the Pilot's implementation of Graffiti, and I
don't have aZoomer here to test it, but these strokes work almost 100% for
me.

Good luck!

-Jim
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