Basic Handbook for the Palm III™ Organizer

Alpha

Tab

Caps lock

Caps shift

Backspace

Carriage return

Numeric

Tap here to display

Alpha keyboard

International


Numeric keyboard


International keyboard

4. Tap the characters of the on-screen keyboard to enter text and numbers.

Note:

The on-screen keyboard also includes a dialog for international characters. You can switch among the three dialogs at any time to enter the exact text you need.

5. After you finish, tap the Done button to close the on-screen keyboard and place the text in your Palm III organizer application.

Writing With the Stylus

Your Palm III organizer includes Graffiti handwriting software as the primary system for entering text and numbers. Graffiti is a system where simple strokes you write with the stylus are instantly recognized as letters or numbers.

This section explains the basics of Graffiti, and how to make strokes in the Graffiti writing area. Your Palm III organizer also includes Giraffe

— a game you can use to practice writing Graffiti. See “Installing

Games” for instructions on how to install Giraffe.

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Opening the Memo Pad Application

The Memo Pad application is ideal for practicing the Graffiti alphabet.

This section explains how to open the Memo Pad and use it to practice

Graffiti. A complete explanation of the Memo Pad application appears in the Applications Handbook for the Palm III Organizer.

To open the Memo Pad application:

1. Press the button on the front of your Palm III organizer to open the Memo Pad application.

2. Tap the New button to open a new Memo Page.

New memo cursor

Tap

New

Write in Graffiti area

Note:

A cursor appears in the upper-left corner of the Memo Page to indicate where new text will appear.

Writing Letters With Graffiti

Most people find they can enter text quickly and accurately with only minutes of practice. Graffiti includes any character you can type on a standard keyboard. The Graffiti strokes closely resemble those of the regular alphabet which makes it quick and easy to learn. For example, the following Graffiti strokes are portions of the regular alphabet equivalents.

A F

4

K

T

5

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There are four basic concepts for success with Graffiti:

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If you draw the character shape exactly as shown in the tables later in this chapter (like the shapes shown in the following diagram), you achieve 100% accuracy.

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The heavy dot on each shape shows where to begin the stroke.

Certain characters have similar shapes, but different beginning and end points. Always begin the stroke at the heavy dot.

Most characters require only a single stroke. When you lift the stylus from the Graffiti writing area, your Palm III organizer recognizes and displays the text character immediately.

The Graffiti writing area is divided into two parts: one for writing the letters of the alphabet and one for writing numbers. The small marks at the top and bottom of the Graffiti writing area indicate the two areas.

Write letters here Write numbers here

Division marks

To write letters of the alphabet with Graffiti:

1. Tap the screen where you want your text to go.

2. Use the table on the next page to find the stroke shape for the letter you want to create. For example, the stroke shown below creates the letter “n.”

Note:

There are two different stroke shapes available for some letters. For these letters, choose the one that’s easiest for you.


Lift stylus here

Start stroke at heavy dot

As you’ll see later, you use these shapes to create both upper- and lowercase letters.

3. Position the stylus in the left-hand side of the Graffiti writing area.

4. Start your stroke at the heavy dot, and draw the stroke shape as it appears in the table.

Note:

Don’t try to draw the dot shape itself. The heavy dot is there to show the starting point of the stroke.

5. Lift the stylus from the screen at the end of the stroke shape.

That’s all there is to it! When you lift the stylus from the screen, your

Palm III organizer recognizes your stroke immediately and prints the letter at the insertion point on the screen.

As soon as you lift the stylus from the screen, you can begin the stroke for the next character you want to write.

Important:

You must begin the character strokes in the Graffiti writing area. If you do not make Graffiti strokes in the

Graffiti writing area, your Palm III organizer does not recognize them as text characters.

Graffiti Tips

When writing with Graffiti, keep these tips in mind:

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Accuracy improves when you write large characters. You should draw strokes that nearly fill the Graffiti writing area.

To delete characters, simply set the insertion point to the right of the character you want to delete and make the backspace stroke

(a line from right to left) in the Graffiti writing area.

Write at natural speed. Writing too slowly can generate recognition errors.

Do not write on a slant. Vertical strokes should be parallel to the sides of the Graffiti writing area.


E

F

G

H

I

The Graffiti Alphabet

Letter

A

B

Strokes

C

D

L

M

J

K

Space

Carriage

Return

Y

Z

W

X

S

T

U

Letter

N

O

Strokes

P

Q

R

V

Back Space

Period

tap twice


Writing Capital Letters With Graffiti

You make capital letters with the same stroke shapes as the basic alphabet characters. To make capital letters, you must first “shift” to caps — just as you press the Shift key on a keyboard — and then write the character strokes.

Note:

Graffiti includes a Smart Shifting feature which automatically capitalizes the first letter when you create a new entry (by tapping a New button or a blank line).

To draw the first letter of a word as a capital letter:

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Use the Caps Shift stroke:

Caps

Shift

Tip:

When Caps Shift is active, an “up arrow” symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the Palm III organizer screen.

To enter only capital letters (Caps Lock):

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Use the Caps Lock stroke:

Caps

Lock

Tip:

When Caps Lock is active, an underlined “up arrow” symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the Palm III organizer screen. To return to lowercase, make the Caps Shift stroke.

Writing Numbers With Graffiti

Writing numbers with Graffiti is similar to writing letters of the alphabet, except that you make the character strokes on the right-hand side (numbers side) of the Graffiti writing area.


Graffiti Numbers

Number

0

Strokes

1

2

3

4

Number

5

Strokes

6

7

8

9

Writing Punctuation Marks With Graffiti

Graffiti can create any punctuation symbol that you can enter from a standard keyboard. All punctuation marks begin with a single tap on the Graffiti writing area. When you make this tap, you activate

Punctuation Shift and a dot appears to show it is active. The next stroke you make with the stylus creates a punctuation mark.

Punctuation shift

Symbol

Period

.

Comma

,

Apostrophe

'

Question

?

Exclamation

!

Stroke Symbol

Dash

—

Left Paren

(

Right Paren

)

Slash

/

Dollar

$

Stroke


Additional Graffiti Punctuation

@ # % ^ & * < > – + = |

\ { } [ ] ~ ` ; : " tab

Note:

When Punctuation Shift is active, you can make a symbol stroke anywhere in the Graffiti writing area (the letters or numbers side).

Writing Symbols and Extended Characters

All symbols and extended characters begin with the stroke in the

Graffiti writing area of your Palm III:

Symbol

Shift

When the Symbol Shift is active, a slanted shift symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the screen. The next stroke that you make creates the symbol or extended character.

•   

, ,

, ,

.

+

–

X

:

= c

?

!

ƒ

∅


Writing Accented Characters

To create accented characters, draw the stroke normally used to create the letter, followed by an accent stroke. Graffiti then adds the accent to the letter.

For example, the following diagram shows the strokes required to draw an accented “e.”

= e

Accent Strokes

a a a a a a

Using these accent strokes, you can write the following accented letters:

à á â ã ä å è é ê ‘ “ ’ ” • ò — ô õ ö ù ú û ü – ÿ

Additional Non-English Characters

You can write the following characters in the lowercase alphabet mode without any special punctuation or shifting: c ae

Note:

You must write these non-English characters in the left side of the Graffiti writing area.


Navigation Strokes

In addition to character symbols, Graffiti includes special strokes that you can use to navigate within text or fields in your Palm III organizer applications.

Command

Move cursor right

Stroke

Move cursor left

Previous field

(Address Book only)

Next Field


Open Address Record


Graffiti ShortCuts

Graffiti’s ShortCuts make entering commonly used words or phrases quick and easy. ShortCuts are similar to the Glossary or Autotext features of some word processors.

Graffiti comes with several predefined ShortCuts, and you can also create your own. Each ShortCut can represent up to 45 characters. For example, you might create a ShortCut for your name, or for the header of a memo. See “ShortCuts Preferences” in the Applications Handbook

for the Palm III Organizer to learn about creating your own ShortCuts.

To use a ShortCut, draw the ShortCut stroke followed by the ShortCut characters. When you draw the ShortCut stroke, the ShortCut symbol appears at the insertion point to show that you are in ShortCut mode.

ShortCut


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