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Re:Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook by ivankolev on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:30AM (#20354429)
The bit about the swappable pen tip picked my interest, cool feature! As an avid believer that pen input is the most flexible way to express your thought process, I find it a bit of a lost art though, people born in the new millennium just wont spend the time to learn to write cursive. I went through most of the Note generation from Samsung and the SPen is getting really close to the look and feel of writing on paper. There's a Google hand writing keyboard for Android that is really good, in fact I am writing this using it. Still, it looks like it will continue to be a niche functionality at best.
Re:Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook by gmueckl on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:04PM (#20355665)
About 15 years ago during my studies I dreamt of a tablet device with pen input and hand writing recognition for advanced maths. I was writing a lot during my physics lectures but almost no plain text. I would still like to have such a device, but also with a CAS integrated with the handwriting recognition. This would take the pain out of typing stuff into a CAS using obscure syntax.
Re:Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook by panda88888 on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:58AM (#20360171)
IMO iPad Pro with the appropriate software would be perfect. However, I think handwriting recognition for math might be too much a niche for developer to focus and polish into software that’s a pleasure to use.
Re:Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook by gmueckl on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:21PM (#20364149)
And recognizing math is hard. That is a huge set of symbols (sometimes with semantically meaningful "tiny" variations like doubled up vertical lines on an R) and their size and relative positioning carries a lot of meaning. Handwriting is a walk in the park compared to that.
Re:Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook by afandian on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:15PM (#20355742)
As someone with bad writing, I have very fond memories of the Graffiti input system from Palm. I can still remember the alphabet 20 years (it was painful writing that!) later.
Re:Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook by andeee23 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:16PM (#20355748)
That might be just an us thing. Haven't met anyone in europe who didn't know cursive
Re:Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook by gerikson on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:18PM (#20355764)
I can write cursive but I can’t read my own handwriting - so now I print.