The TIP basically works like a keyboard.
you handwrite "I like pizza" in the TIP
it acts as if it typed it in key for key.

So if you had a sentance in a document, you'd have to select whats wrong,
and rewrite it correctly. (Assuming the TIP recognizes your handwriting well
and doesnt make any mistakes...)

So lets say you have a sentance on the page, and it says something wrong in
it.

I Like Piezza

Now you have to select the "L" in Like (as you would with a mouse, but you'd
use the pen), the TIP popup shows, you hover over the popup, and handwrite
in "l", and hit insert. now it looks like

I like Piezza

Now you select the whole word "Piezza", and hover over the popup, and
handwrite in "pizza.", then click insert.

I like pizza.

Now lets change the sentance, insert the cursor right after "I" (same way if
you were using a mouse), click the popup, and write in "'d", hit insert, and
now its.

I'd like pizza.

Insert the cursor right before pizza, and hover over the popup and write
"some". this'll automatically assumea space after "some", and hold the space
after "like".

I'd like some pizza.

At first working with the TIP can get confusing, and frustraiting... but
after a while you do get used to it.
You also can go into keyboard mode in the TIP, which is just like doing
"hunt and peck" (people who don't know how to type do this with at least two
fingers), but with one pen.

If you make a mistake in the TIP you can use the gesture for scratch out. If
you need to use the backspace and you've got the tip open, the backspace
gesture is one swift stroke from the right to the left.

I thin Jonathan you have a great idea, maybe a great addin for word, or
powertoy, something that can understand correction marks.
I know some people I'll see what they think of making a tool or program like
that.

I will let this newsgroup also know what happens. I also frequent
www.tabletpcbuzz.com

-James


"Jonathan Sachs" <llm040903@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Thank you, Chris and James, for your input. Chris, what you said about
> editing things (deleting, formatting, etc.) makes perfect sense, and
> confirms my assumptions. Your description of the TIP, and of how to
> change text, is much less clear.
>
> You said that one selects text, opens the TIP, and modifies the text.
> So far so good, but you have only explained WHERE one modifies text
> (in the TIP), not HOW.
>
> Let's take a realistic example. Suppose I wrote "Any sale, lease, or
> other transfer," and I now want to change it to, "All sales, leases,
> exchanges, or other transfers." How do I do this?
>
> If I were using "nice" editing software (with the TIP a given) I
> could:
>
> 1. Select the sentence with a pen, moving it to the TIP.
> 2. Scratch out (or select) "Any" and replace it by writing "All."
> 3. Point after "sale" and write an 's'.
> 4. Point after "lease" and write an 's' and a comma.
> 5. Point after the comma and write ' exchanges' and a comma.
> 6. Point after "transfer" and write an 's'.
> 7. Reinsert the contents of the TIP in the text.
>
> Now, doing the work this way seems to require elementary editing
> gestures which you've implied do not exist. How, then, is it done? I'm
> trying to imagine some design that does not force me to either delete
> and rewrite the whole thing, or select, edit and reinsert each changed
> word. I can think of several ways it MIGHT work, but none of them are
> easy.
>
> My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.