The way that Transcriber recognizes your handwriting can be adapted to your unique way of forming letters. For example, if you find that Transcriber regularly misinterprets a particular letter, you can train it using the Letter Shapes Selector. You open the Letter Shapes Selector by tapping the icon in the toolbar that looks like a cursive letter a (fourth icon from the left). The Block Recognizer allows you to use Palm Graffiti to enter text into your iPAQ.

The Letter Shapes Selector window gives you all the characters of the alphabet as well as the most commonly used punctuation and special characters at the bottom of the screen. To select the character you want to train, tap it in the list (the arrows at the bottom right will move you to the next or previous character). In the top portion of the screen, you will see a series of characters displaying the different Transcriber allows you to write words anywhere on the screen and have them translated into text. The Letter Shapes Selector allows you to train Transcriber to recognize the way that you write letters. ways that Transcriber will expect to see the upper- and lowercase versions of the letter. You can select each variation and tag it as being one that is often, rarely, or never used by you. Any letter you select as rarely used will appear with one slash through the letter, and any that you mark as never used will appear with an x marked through the letter. Doing this serves two purposes: By eliminating letters that you never write, Transcriber has fewer letters to search through each time to find a match and can thus recognize text more quickly.

The second purpose is that letters that look similar to other characters can be difficult to interpret. For example, a cursive Q looks very much like the number 2. If you never use the cursive Q style, then you can increase the chances of the number 2 being correctly interpreted.While in the Letter Shapes Selector, you can see a demo of how any of the shapes is drawn by tapping it. This will cause it to draw itself for your observation. If you are concerned that by tweaking your Transcriber letter shape settings, you might make your iPAQ unusable for someone that you share the device with, you don’t need to worry. The Letter Shapes Selector also allows you to set one of two profiles: Master or Guest. By default, it assumes you are editing the Master profile; however, if you lend your iPAQ to someone, you can set it to the Guest profile, so they can use standard recognition or customize the settings for their own handwriting without affecting your settings. You can select the profile in the File menu, as shown in the illustration that follows. If many people are using the same iPAQ, you can save and load profiles from this menu as well. At any point, you can revert to the default setting by selecting Use Original Settings from this menu.

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