Text Input Mode Switching - Giant 5860 Operator's Manual

Giant Telecom Limited – Operator Manual for 5860 – Version 0 2 29Jun2004
When a period of T8 has elapsed without another key being pressed, the character
currently being displayed is automatically accepted and the input position moves on
to the next position.
When a new key is pressed before T8. The current character is accepted, the cursor
is moved to the next position the first character on the new key is displayed on the
cursor position.
41.5.4.1

Text Input Mode Switching

In editors the pressing [
numeric mode.
The toggling between capital, lower case letters and numeric mode is context (editor
mode) dependant.
Editor mode
Small letters (a)
Capital letters (A)
Numeric mode (123)
Note: Table is only valid for input in multitap mode (keys are pressed without key
press tim eout)
The modes "abc" and "123" will be permanent states. The "Abc" mode will be
temporary, after a character in capital letter mode has been entered ("A") the device
switches into small letter mode ("bc").
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Pressing the [ ] key a second time switches to number input (provided that lower
case letters is the adjusted mode).
That is the following input modes are available:
No. Mode Description
1 abc Keypad input mode is alphanumeric and lowercase.
2 Abc Keypad input mode is alphanumeric. Only the next character entered will be upper
case, automatic switchover to lowercase ("abc" ) mode will occur after the first capital
character has been accepted.
3 123 Keypad input mode is numeric.
Lower case letters are set by default.
Exceptions: Upper case letters are automatically activated in an editor for the first
letter after a blank line and at the start of text and after punctuation marks ( .!?:¿¡).
The editor stays in upper case if a blank is put in after a punc tuation mark.
Upper case letter mode is cancelled if no upper case letters exist for the selected
character. If the initial, automatically capitalized character of a line or word is deleted,
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] key toggles between capital, lower case letters and
[
Strokes at
First
abc -> Abc
Abc -> 123
123 -> abc
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]
key
Second
Abc -> 123
123 -> abc
abc -> Abc
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