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From: David Bakhash <cadet@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: strokes.el
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hey,
	AFA strokes is going, I've taken care of a bunch of things:

1) no more itimer bug issues.  w/ kyles help I nailed down the problem
   that strokes was interfering with XEmacs timout events.  Now all
   events are handled.
2) no more errors occur while user is entering in strokes
   interactively.  All exceptions are handled now.
3) The event which starts out each stroke is not lost like it used to
   be, so for slow-sampling machines, nothing's wasted.
4) Chinese/Japanese seems to be easily written/read with the current
   interface.
5) lots of other little random things to make it more robust and
   non-tempermental.

I'd appreciate it if a directory was made for strokes.el, where I'll try 
to segment the files like this:

i)   strokes.el (core stuff -- still one file -- will eventually be broken 
     down)
ii)  strokes-french.el  -- for using strokes to write weird letters like
     French people do (E accent aigu, etc.)
iii) stroke-abc.el  -- for writing plain-old english characters.  I was
     intending to distribute this w/ Xerox Park's Unistrokes, but I
     don't want some major patent law destroying my life right now.

all this stuff is at http://www.mit.edu/people/cadet/ and will be
available soon.  If anyone would like to make last-minute suggestions,
I'm all ears; otherwise, the stuff there will be ready by sunday nite,
around Midnight.  It's actually looking really good.  People are
starting to send me comments.  Even the GNU emacs users who are using
the 0.0-beta (pathetic, broken) release of strokes, with no writing
ability and no xpm graphics stuff are decently happy.  I think one
chinese guy switched over to XEmacs because he liked strokes.  But I'm
still trying to nail down bugs in the emacs version.

dave

