Dragon Macros (was: RE: Help Rewriting/Refactoring/Rethinking Parsing Algorythm)

[Anders Schneiderman]

Thanks, Mike.  Clearly this is the way to go.  I'll still probably write a few
simple Natlink Python macros for some special  cases (e.g., "grab lines 10 through
15" to select lines 10-15), but you've saved me a bunch of coding.

Since you've obviously figured out a lot about how to use DNS, I've got one more
question.  Using file dialog boxes, either for opening a file in a different
directory or for saving a file in a different directory, is a real pain.  Any tricks
to make life easier?

Thanks,
Anders



Mike C. Fletcher wrote:

> For those who are curious, here's a set of macros that seem to work nicely
> for the names:
>
> In VocEdit, define the following, then train them in vocabulary editor (the
> items with nothing before the slash are supposed to have nothing there,
> these are non-visible elements)...
>         \pyname, LowerCase next word, Turn Capitalisation On, Turn off Spacing
> between words
>         \pycaps, Turn Capitalisation On, Turn off Spacing between words
>         \pynorm, Restore Normal Capitalisation, Restore Normal Spacing
>         \pynormal, Restore Normal Capitalisation, Restore Normal Spacing
>         if __name__ == "__main__":\pymainline, Follow with one newline character
>
> The last entry eliminates the need for a __name__ and __main__ entry, which
> frees up the pyname entry for use as a lowerUpperUpper macro (and yes, I did
> dictate that using the macro :) ).  pynormal is more natural feeling than
> pynorm when you're first getting used to it.
>
> I'm considering adding "add an extra space following this word" for pynorm
> (without it you get some less-than-attractive effects, but with it I'd need
> another phrase for "stop the caps and spaces but don't space" for when doing
> a dotted name.  Oh, pyconstant might be introduced to give an ALL-CAPS + No
> Space macro.
>
> Making a script that auto-created all those + the def, equals, triple-quote,
> etceteras and asked the user to train each a couple of times would be cool.
> Maybe when I'm out of a job I'll look into it.
>
> Anyway, enjoy all,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike C. Fletcher [mailto:mcfletch at home.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 11:32 PM
> To: 'Boopy Bootles'; python-list at python.org
> Subject: RE: Help Rewriting/Refactoring/Rethinking Parsing Algorythm
> ...
> Looking at your list, adding:
>         py-caps  -> \No-Space-On\Caps-On
>         py-norm  -> \No-Space-Off\Caps-Off
>         py-name  -> <word> \No-Space-On\Caps-On [ not sure if you can do this
> without a macro... ]
> ...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boopy Bootles [mailto:aschneid at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 8:57 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Help Rewriting/Refactoring/Rethinking Parsing Algorythm
>
> I'm trying to write a simple piece of code to make programming by voice
> recognition software easier to do.  I wrote a very simple function that
> would, for example, convert "number customers equals 5" to
> "numberCustomers = 5".  But once I started using it, I quickly
> discovered several more cases I had to handle.  So far, this is the
> list:
> ...