Fitaly for the Pocket PC
Shortcuts and the Glossary Viewer
Shortcut Expansion:
Fitaly for the Pocket PC offers a very powerful expansion capability with visual advisories. You can see it in action below:
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As you type letters, the two-line advisory is continuously updated to reflect possible expansions. Then a tap on an advisory line is all it takes to expand the shortcut. You can set the number of advisory lines to 0, 1, or 2 and you can also use the shorcut key to produce the expansion.
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The standard business glossary that comes with the Fitaly keyboard provides more than 900 phrases used in everyday correspondence. You can add your own in various ways and nothing prevents having several thousands of entries on a Pocket PC. So you can keep addresses, product lists, and various nomenclatures easily available with a few letters.
The Glossary Editor:
To see what you currently have, just tap on the Editor button
on the side bar to open the Glossary Editor.
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Opening the glossary editor shows the entries that are currently available, sorted by shortcuts alphabetically. You can quickly locate an entry by typing the first two letters of the shortcut. The example shows what you see after typing the letters "ai." If entries have the same shortcut – here, the two "aiwt" entries –, you can use the up and down arrows to order them.
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Adding or Editing an Entry:
To add an entry, use the plus button + on the command bar. To edit an entry, click on it or on the Edit menu. In either case the following dialog appears:
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Just define the short form and its expansion. Then tap on OK to get back to the Glossary Viewer. |
Glossary Downloading and Uploading
Fitaly 3 makes it very easy to use several different glossaries.
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Glossaries are downloaded in a folder called Fitaly Glossaries and you can load them directly with the Glossary viewer in the local data base on the Pocket PC. Glossaries are simple text files which you can transfer back and forth between a desktop PC and a Pocket PC. On the desktop PC, glossaries can be edited with a simple editor such as NotePad. You can also produce glossaries with Instant Text. |
In its simplest form a glossary appears as follows:
[Glossary some name]
[Phrases]
iac
...
ialf
...
in any case
I am looking forward to
[end]
Each entry must be on a single line and without any leading space. A space or a tab after the short form separates it from its expansion. For multiline entries, the symbol ¶ (Ansi code 182) is used to indicate paragraphs.
The usual html convention can be used in glossary entries to represent characters of the Unicode set. For example, entering the Greek letter delta Δ is done by entering the Δ sequence.
Date and Time Macros in Shortcuts
Special macros are available in glossary entries to get the time and date:
Macro:
<shorttime>
<longtime>
<shortdate>
<longdate>
Expands to:
11:14 PM
11:14:20 PM
2001-06-26
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
The actual date format you obtain is whatever you have selected on your Regional Settings. The above examples may therefore not reflect what you actually see on your Pocket PC. Of course, you can define abbreviations for them. For example, you can define glossary entries such as the following:
date
time
<longdate>
<longtime>
Glossaries for all uses
The short form can be anything you want. You can use glossaries to implement simple data bases similar to sets of index cards, in which case you can use the index as short form. Here are as few examples:
fitaly
...
textware
...
whitlock
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http://www.fitaly.com
Textware Solutions¶58 Lexington Street¶Burlington MA 01803¶
Herbert Whitlock¶The Story of Gems¶Lee Furman, 1936¶Paid $100, 1987
You can also use glossaries automatically constructed by Instant Text. While their form is more general, they can nevertheless be downloaded to your Pocket PC.
Copyright © 1998-2005 Textware Solutions. – Last modified January 12, 2005