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> Hi,
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> Recently my work PC was "upgraded" to a Pentium Pro, and DD 3.0 now runs
> HORRIBLY slowly. I suspect this is due to the PPro's weakness at 16 bit
> software like DD. So I need to migrate my macros to Nat [which works
> fine on my PPro], before I go crazy waiting for DD. I realize that Nat
> doesn't recognize different Windows apps the way DD does, but I spend
> most of my time dictating into a telnet window anyway, so this isn't an
> issue. I switch manually between vocabulary groups since I use UNIX and
> a2x.
>
> I added a macro to Nat, and saw that it ended up in a file named
> GLOBAL.DVC in a sort of C-language form. So before I write a program to
> convert all my lovingly crafted `add-word [foo] "bar" /nr /c /p'
> statements to however Nat wants it, a couple of questions:
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> 3. Any comments on the flexibility of Nat macros vs. DD macros?
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> Thanks,
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> Chris
> daft@@crd.ge.com
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I am afraid I cannot comment on the rest of your questions, since I have
not use the macro capabilities of NaturallySpeaking Deluxe very much
yet, and have not tried to add macros except with the annoying new
command Wizard. However, from what I can tell the macro capabilities of
NaturallySpeaking Deluxe are almost as powerful as those of
Dragon Dictate. The most important things omitted from the
NaturallySpeaking macro language are groups and listen from group and
SetHomeGroup commands used to switch manually between them. This is
extraordinarily annoying. However, some other capabilities can be
duplicated by making use of the one new feature of the NaturallySpeaking
Deluxe macro language, the fact that you can define macros which are
only active when a particular string is contained in the window title.
If you want to try to use NaturallySpeaking for Unix, I would certainly
recommend an X Windows emulator or a Telnet program which allows you to
change the window title either from the Windows end or the Unix end. I
use Hummingbird eXceed as an X Windows emulator at work, and a shareware
Telnet program called NetTerm at home which has control sequences for
setting the window title from the Unix end, and a menu option for
setting it from the Windows end.
If you find out any more information about manually adding macros to
NaturallySpeaking, or if you end up writing a conversion utility, I
would be extremely interesting in hearing more.
David Fox
davidfox@@fas.harvard.edu
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talking to a dragon, or so I have always heard.
-- Balin, The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
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