General Guidelines For Graffiti®2 Writing - Meazura MEZ1000 User Manual

You should try the demo if Graffiti 2 is new to you. After you view the Welcome
application the first time, a Graffiti 2 Demo icon will appear on the Applications Launcher
menu. Tap on this icon to view the demo at any time.
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When you reach the Stroke Lookup screen of the demo, use the pick list to view the wide variety of
characters that you can make. As you tap a character, you will see an animation of the strokes
used to form that character.
General guidelines for Graffiti®2 Writing
Follow these guidelines to learn and use Graffiti 2 writing strokes successfully:
· To achieve 100% accuracy, practice drawing characters exactly as they appear in the tables later in
this chapter.
· The heavy dot on each shape indicates where to start the stroke. Some characters have similar
shapes, but different starting and ending points. Always start the stroke at the heavy dot. (Do not
draw the heavy dot; it is there only as a guideline.)
· The Graffiti 2 writing strokes for letters closely resemble letters of the standard English alphabet,
both upper case and lower case. Graffiti 2 includes symbols made with a single stroke and symbols
made with multiple strokes.
For multi-stroke characters, a temporary character is displayed after the first stroke, to show that
the stroke was recognized. For example, after the first vertical stroke of "t", a temporary "l" is
shown. There is a limited time window, during which the second stroke must be drawn. Otherwise
the temporary stroke is recorded.
· The text input area is divided into two parts, one for writing lowercase letters and one for writing
numbers. The small marks at the top and bottom of the text input area define the division line. To
have your RDA recognize letters and numbers, you must begin letter strokes on the left side, and
number strokes on the right side of the text input area. Uppercase letters are formed by writing
across the division line.
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