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From: LL23@NEMOMUS.BITNET (Karen Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: the interface for the rest of us?
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Date: 6 May 91 22:39:31 GMT
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> > Two reasons for using pen technology have already been repeatedly cited:
> > (1) It's a better input device for many-letter alphabets (not necessarily
> >     just Japanese -- consider that a mathematician can use a pen to write
> >     Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc. without hitting
> >     <shift>-<option>-<control>-<widget>-<Q>-LETTER
> >     or switching to a special font.)
> >

I came in in the middle of this conversation, so I may have missed
something, but I thought that the pen interface has proved problematic
for Japanese?  For all the reasons that one might think--letters have
to be written exactly, in a certain fashion, or they become unreadable.
Is this not true?

Karen Kay
Asst. Prof. of Japanese
Northeast Missouri State University
LL23@NEMOMUS