Re: Fwd: Hand writing questions

Ping,

    Please can you provide me help or references where I can get the help regarding the following three questions

(a)    On Windows XP there is a facility for writing notes using the tablet and stylus and it produces .jnt files. Is there any way to read such files on Linux ?

IMHO, the answer is no. If you find it, please report to the list. Microsoft journal files are proprietary format. You need Microsoft TabletPC API to create it. As usual, Microsoft doesn't want you being able to change platform, so it if someone tries to reverse engineer the format, Microsoft could change the format way way faster than you "decode" its format. It is a "moving target".

(b)    I am working with xournal, and I am writing my notes with xournal. Are there any other better alternatives for the Debian system ?

Again, IMHO, no. I like xournal, and I believe you are referring to handwriting recognition, and variable width. You could use Inscape calligraphic tool with fixation=0 for having variable width strokes. It's SVG, so it could be converted to Latex.  

(c)    Is it possible to translate the hand written notes to LaTeX ? The notes are in mathematics and involve mathematical symbols and commutative diagrams. Is it possible to translate such notes ? Or at least the text part ?

As you can see in:
http://math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/manual.html

The xournal file format is XML and open. This means you could create a SVG, or postcript polygon easily. Xournal just stores a constant width stroke composed by simple lines. If you are interested we could do this tool posible. I know how to do it, just need some time.

Jose

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