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PRODUCT REVIEW
Improve your Graffiti recognition with TealScript 2.21
By Craig M. Bobchin

I'm not a fast typist, and even after almost 20 years of typing on PCs, I still can't touch type very well. My handwriting is also pretty close to illegible. When I first picked up my original Pilot 1000, I was struck by the simplicity of its Graffiti recognition application. I loved the idea of a simple, single stroke lettering system.

I learned it in about an hour and mastered it over the course of a week. Of course, it helps if you have a good stylus, as the plastic ones that came with the original Pilots were too thin, light, and short to do any writing over an extended period of time. Even with a Palmgear HQ Stylus, however, I still had problems with Graffiti recognition some of my letters.

And so it was with welcoming arms-or should I say, fingers--that I embraced TealPoint's TealScript 2.21. TealScript 2.21 is a program that claims to enhance and improve your Palm device's built-in Graffiti recognition. It does its work behind the scenes, so you won't even know it's there.

Graffiti aid
TealScript works by recognizing strokes in the Graffiti area and comparing each entered stylus stroke to entries in the current stroke profile. A stroke profile is simply a collection of recorded strokes and the characters they represent. TealScript uses the stroke profile as a sort of dictionary, converting a stroke to a character once it's found the closest match. You can fine-tune the profile by modifying the stroke profile's individual entries, changing its adjustment values, retraining its recorded stroke data, or adding new stroke entries altogether. More on that later.

Installation
Once I downloaded TealScript, installation was easy. There were several files that TealScript needed to see on the Palm device side, one of which was Hackmaster, something many users already have installed. The others are TEALSCRP.PRC, the TealScript program file; PROFILE.PDB, a default stroke profile file; and RESCRIPT.PRC, a Hackmaster system extension to automatically re-install TealScript after a system reset.

Configuration
After installing, you begin using TealScript by starting it from the Palm application launcher. You'll first see the main control screen, which is the starting point for configuring and fine-tuning TealScript.

If everything has been installed properly, the default profile should appear at the top of the screen under the title Profile. This is a pop-up list that displays all installed profiles and provides choices for deleting, creating, or duplicating them.


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