From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 14:15:16 CDT
On 25/09/2004 18:50, Doug Ewell wrote:
> ...
>
>Philippe makes an excellent case for the continued use and teaching of
>shorthand, but none of his arguments really demonstrates why shorthand
>should be encoded in a standard character encoding such as Unicode.
>
>There is no question that major corporations and small businesses alike
>relied heavily on shorthand before the advent of machine-assisted
>transcription, and many would benefit greatly from continuing to use it.
>(Are stenographic machines or computerized equivalents really in common
>use at ordinary companies for taking meeting minutes?) ...
>
>There does not seem to be a demonstrated need to *interchange* shorthand
>text from one computer system to another. That appears to be one factor
>that determines whether encoding is justified or not.
>
>
>
If we are considering a scenario in which someone takes shorthand notes
at a meeting and transcribes them later, interchange between computers
is likely to be required. If this process is to be automated, a sensible
way to do so would be for the minute-taker to write shorthand on to a
hand-held computer's screen. This data would then need to be transferred
to a desktop or networked machine for transcription and further editing.
The most processing-efficient way to do so might be to transfer images,
but that would be a lot of data for a record of an entire meeting, so
for bandwidth efficiency the hand-held computer should analyse the
shorthand and transfer the shorthand text in some kind of encoded form.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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