Re: IT question

From: Su (._at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:20:34 -0600

"14tonks" <mail.2.14tonks@recursor.net> wrote in message
news:36kl6tF537r1hU1@individual.net...
> IT comes with some starter glossaries. You can choose to use all, some, or
> none of them, and change your mind with a couple of keystrokes.

I saw an image of that, I think in Textware.

So ... when you go to set up the glossaries, you need to divide the reports
according to specialty. Am I correct?

> If you use the marker key option, which is the way IT was really designed
> to
> be used, nothing expands unless you hit your designated marker key, and
> there are different keys for phrases (defined shorts, whether for phrases
> or
> words) and words (freeform shorts, whether for words or phrases). You
> don't
> lose any keystrokes using the marker key if you set IT to autospace; you
> just hit the marker instead of the spacebar after a short.

This whole marker things has my head spinning. I had IT many years ago and
remember I couldn't figure out when to choose it for word or phrase. I tried
all sorts of combinations and this would work or not that.

Also, how do you remember to keep switching between the space bar and the
marker. I did something similar to that about 30 years ago when I worked for
a company that had a really weird typewriter. I remember have to keep
hitting a key every time I want to capitalize something ... it wasn't the
shift key. It took a bit of getting used to, but I mastered it quite nicely.
Again, that was 30 years ago.

> The advantage of an advisory is that you do not have to have a unique
> short
> for every word or phrase. You can certainly choose to do so, however, and
> you can even choose to run the program with a 1-line advisory at the
> bottom
> of the screen that you never look at while expanding with delimiters like
> the space and period instead of marker keys. If you are going to run IT
> that
> way, though, you might as well buy a cheaper expander without the fancy
> features, because you aren't taking advantage of them.

I work with a bar at the bottom of the screen with DNS, but it's a single
bar. Doesn't IT tend to got a bit of screen area?

If I'm going to try this one more time, I want to know all of the "side
effects" in advance.

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    ... and change your mind with a couple of keystrokes. ... If you use the marker key option, which is the way IT was really designed to ... be used, nothing expands unless you hit your designated marker key, and ... there are different keys for phrases (defined shorts, ...
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    ... But how do you remember all of the words phrases you have abbreviations for? ... (And when you hit a marker key, ... > hit the space bar to get a space, so the keystrokes required are a wash.) ...
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