Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote: > If we are considering a scenario in which someone takes shorthand > notes at a meeting and transcribes them later, interchange between > computers is likely to be required. If this process is to be > automated, a sensible way to do so would be for the minute-taker to > write shorthand on to a hand-held computer's screen. This data would > then need to be transferred to a desktop or networked machine for > transcription and further editing. The most processing-efficient way > to do so might be to transfer images, but that would be a lot of data > for a record of an entire meeting, so for bandwidth efficiency the > hand-held computer should analyse the shorthand and transfer the > shorthand text in some kind of encoded form.
Is this a realistic scenario? (This is not a rhetorical question; I really want to know.) If this sort of workflow actually happens, or would if the encoding were there, then that might constitute a valid use case for encoding shorthand. But as far as I know, accurate handwriting analysis of shorthand or other "normal" penmanship (not Palm Graffiti or a similar scheme) by commonly available handhelds is not up to this challenge. I may be wrong. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
