Instant Text V Pro – 5.44 – Revision 544

Revision 544 of Instant Text V Pro applies to all releases of Version V, starting with the first one issued in June 2002, and updates them to the new Release 5.44. The revision includes changes done in the prior revisions 501 through 533.

Applying Revision 544

If you are installing from a new 5.44 CD, skip to the next section. You have the most recent version and there is no need to apply any revision.

If you have an earlier version, download the revision Rev544P.exe installer from the Textware Solutions site and save it to your computer, for example, to the InstText\temp folder. Running this installer will update your current version to Release 5.44. If the revision fails for any reason, reinstall Instant Text from your CD before you apply the revision.

To be sure that the revision has been applied, check the build date in Help/About Instant Text and it should now indicate 2007-05-11. (If you want, you can now safely delete the installer.)

No glossary is modified by the revision. But to be on the safe side, always create backup copies of your glossaries before installing any software.

What is new in Version 5.44

The following list shows the Instant Text V Pro improvements and corrections done in revisions 520, 521, 522, 523, 530, 533, and 544. Changes done in these revisions are marked in color as [520], [521], [522], [523], [530], [533], or [544].

• Support for Internet Explorer 7 [544]
  The new version provides full support for Internet Explorer 7 and all applications using IE7 like, for instance, Bayscribe or Webmedx. In particular, long entries or command entries will expand as before, and the cursor is again visible all the time.
• Improved usage of date macros [544]
  The shortdate and longdate glossary command entries take the user customization into account. If you change the date settings in the Control Panel under Regional and Language Options, the date macros will expand according to your settings.
• Compilation option for hyphenated words improved [544]
  When the option Hyphens Separate Words is checked, the short form of a hyphenated compound word is generated with the initials of the words before and after the hyphen not only when adding a new glossary entry, but also when Instant Text compiles a glossary. The short form generated for direct-current cardioversion will be dcc instead of dc.
• Miscellaneous improvements [544]
  
  • The Alt = window will always show the text that you have selected.
  • Elimination of spurious characters.
  • Improved refresh of the Glossary List.
• Support for Spheris TWS 3.8 [533]
  The new version provides full support for Spheris TWS 3.8.
• Improved support for Cerner and DocQscribe [533]
• Support for Multi-Threaded Applications [530]
  A number of recent applications are written as what is technically called "multi-threaded" applications. These include applications such as the most recent version of Vianeta, Futurenet iType, MT Scribe, Adobe Acrobat for forms, and several others. Version 5.30 is the first version of Instant Text that supports multi-threaded applications.
• Support for DOS Applications [530]
  The new version also expands in a DOS window and can be used with applications such as WordPerfect 5.1. You can use the same Instant Text glossaries as for Windows applications when linking to a DOS window but there are a few differences. Formatted entries cannot be used as they require rich text format but most commands work. Operations such as Alt= that require the clipboard do not work. This new DOS support capability should help Instant Text users who occasionally have to work for an account that requires WP 5.1 or similar programs.
• Reordering the Glossary List [520]
  A new dialog is provided to allow reordering of the glossaries of the Glossary List. The dialog is now always displayed when you select the menu choice for Save Active Glossary List.

  

  If you only want to save the list without reordering it, just click on the Save Glossary List button.
• Configurations [520] and Settings [523] and [530]
  Configurations allow you to start Instant Text with different sets of options. You can use them to have different Glossary Lists or a different number of advisory lines, and so on. Starting Instant Text with a Configuration file is done with a command line parameter:

  C:\InstText\Exe32\ITVPro.exe /Config="C:\InstText\Option\Manual.ini"

  For example, you can create a desktop shortcut for Instant Text and then right-click on the icon and select Properties. Then you can edit the "Target:" text box to add a Config command line parameter.

  See Configurations for more information on this subject.

  Settings provide a more general way to create configurations for network installations. For more information, system administrators should email or call Textware technical support.

  Version 5.30 adds the ability to use the system parameter %username% in glossary file names mentioned in the configuration files. This allows the writing of sections such as:

  [Active Glossaries]
  Current=Medstart
  Singles=E:\User\%username%\Glossary\MedsingleV.glo
  ActiveGlossary0=E:\User\%username%\Glossary\Address.glo

• Glossary Selection Keys [520] and Focus Keys [522]
  The keys to be used for glossary selection and to toggle focus can now be chosen on the Keys Panel of the Options dialog:

  

  The default choice for Glossary keys is to use Ctrl+n, where n is a digit. But if you are working with a system that already uses Ctrl+n for something else, you can select Shift+Ctrl+n or just the mouse.

  The default choice to toggle focus between Instant Text and the linked application is Ctrl+/ but if you are working with a system that already uses this combination, you can select Shift+Ctrl+/ or just the mouse.

• Enrich Enhancements [520]
  Adjunct glossaries produced by Enrich are now placed at the end of the main glossary (they were at the beginning in prior versions). This means that if you carefully set some "includes" to be at the beginning of the main glossary, they are not going to be displaced by adjunct glossaries that are created by Enrich.

  In addition, the header format for adjunct glossaries has changed. Before version 5.2, Enrich produced glossaries with the following header:

  [Glossary $extend     2 7]

  This meant that identical headers were produced when doing several enriches. To avoid this, the new Enrich appends the date and time to produce unique names of the form:

  [Glossary Enrich-2003Jun24-190853     2 7]

  The advantage of unique names is that it is now possible to position an "include" between enrich glossaries (it was not possible before because the headers were indistinguishable).
• Pasting for Windows 2000 [520]
  For Windows 2000, prior versions showed an occasional hesitation for the first long expansion following an explicit use of the clipboard. This problem is solved by version 5.2.
• Multiple Compilation [520]
  The extraction algorithm now separates consecutive files. This makes it more usable with small individual files, for example, when compiling a folder of WP5.1 macros. (While the problem existed also for large files it had no real impact on the glossaries produced.)
• Diacritical Marks [521]
  The new version extends the special treatment for diacritical marks to more applications. (This is for accented letters when using the US International keyboard with Instant Text.) In addition, Revision 521 applies the diacritical treatment strictly when the so-called "Brazilian Keyboard Convention" is checked in the Special Keys Options.
• New Applications: WordPerfect 11 and 12 [523]
  The new version supports the most recent versions of WordPerfect, WordPerfect 11 and WordPerfect 12.
• New Application: Word 2003 — XML [522]
  Full support for MS Word 2003 is provided. In particular, glossary compilation is now able to compile document files saved in the XML format. With this extension, Instant Text is now able to compile all formats supported by MS Word: *.doc, *.htm, and *.xml.
• New Application: Medware — Merit [522]
  Revision 522 provides full support for the Merit system of Medware.
• Vianeta, Opera, CrazyBrowser... [521]
  Revision 521 corrects expansion problems that existed in the earlier 520 for Vianeta, Opera, CrazyBrowser, and a few others applications that do not support the use of Alt+Numpad sequences to enter special characters.
• Meditech — Magic [521]
  Revision 521 provides proper automatic spacing and capitalization with Meditech. Earlier versions had a problem with release 2.17 of the Magic terminal interface — with the T.exe executable. (Spacing or capitalization worked correctly with all releases of VMagic.exe.)
• Improved handling of Microsoft Outlook [523]
  Revision 523 handles Automatic Spacing for Microsoft Outlook. In addition, it supports Alt= in the plain text and RTF versions of the message window. The html version of the message window requires doing a Ctrl C before Alt=.
• Miscellaneous improvements [530]
  
  • Allow continuations of entries entered by expanding a single letter abbreviation.
  • Better tolerance of read-only folders.
  • Corrected an error when the merge result file is one of the merged files.

Version 5.30 — Importer Improvements

• Speed improvements and error corrections [530]
  
• New Import Formats: DocQscribe and SoftMed [530]
  Version 5.30 provides two additional buttons to import abbreviation files of the DocQscribe and SoftMed systems.
• Importing Smartype Blocks [520]
  The revised Importer now imports Smartype blocks. This assumes that you have a normal Smartype installation, in which case, blocks are in a BLOCKS subfolder and each block is a separate WordPerfect 5.1 file with a BWP extension.

  The revised Importer automatically finds blocks and uses them as needed in the conversion (starred entries with *** are produced in the case of missing blocks). Note that no other product — not even Windows versions of Smartype — is able to convert Smartype blocks!

• Dictaphone Improvements [520]
  The new version covers additional variants of the Dictaphone format, which were not treated in the original version. We believe all Dictaphone ESP files can now be converted. (If you happen to find a file that cannot be converted, email it to our support line and we'll take care of it.)
• Address Improvements [520]
  The new version provides ways to neutralize titles such as "Mr." or "Dr." when creating a short form for an address.
• Shorthand Improvements [522]
  Revision 521 converts a wider range of the Shorthand tags. In particular it converts tags for dates and times in the equivalent Instant Text commands: {shortdate}, {longdate}, {shorttime}, and {longtime}. In addition, it converts the "nospace" tag into a trailing underscore. Revision 522 also accepts spf files containing very long short forms, truncating them to the maximum length allowed by Instant Text.

Revision 523 — Line Reporter Improvements

• Improved Help [523]
  The Line Reporter Help now includes additional articles on managing journals, journal backup, and merging journals.
• Line Reporter Settings [523]
  When Instant Text is used in a network installation, the new Settings feature can be used in conjunction to the Line Count and the Line Reporter to provide per-user Log folders. For more information, system administrators should email or call Textware technical support

Prior Changes in Revisions 502

The following improvements and corrections have been done in the earlier revision 502 and are also part of revision 523:

• Tentative space improvements
  Tentative spaces before # and $ characters are no longer absorbed.
• Citrix improvement
  Expansion with the caps lock key in Citrix now produces upper case text, as for other client applications.
• Alt+Numpad characters
  Correction of an error in the handling of characters produced by Alt+Numpad.
• Windows 95 support.
  Correction of an error in the handling of Tab and Enter in Word for Windows 95.
• Delete Dialog
  The Delete dialog can now be closed with Enter (in addition to closing by Alt+D or with the mouse).
• Commands
  Correction of a (minor) memory leak that occurred for expansion of some entries including commands.
• System improvement
  It is now possible to specify the product list file. (This is for system administrators only.)

Prior Changes in Revisions 501

The following improvements and corrections have been done in the earlier revision 501 and are also part of revision 523:

• Trailing Underscore
  You can now tell Instant Text not to add tentative space(s) after an expansion by ending the entry with an underscore. For example, if you have the entries:

  hp hyper_
  ...
  ifl inflation

  Then typing hp;ifl; should produce hyperinflation

  Without the trailing underscore, a tentative space would be added after hyper and this would produce hyper inflation. Note that trailing underscores will work best if you are using markers.

• Line Count and Line Reporter
  The Line Count and the Line Reporter now display Unit Costs with four digits after the decimal point. This means that $0.1225 is now displayed for a Unit Cost of 12.25 cents per line.

  Note that this only affects the way it is displayed, as the cost calculations were already done with this precision.

• Handling of All Caps
  Version V expands in all caps if the short form is typed with the Caps Lock key engaged, or if the short form has at least two characters and they are all typed in upper case.

  This revision adds another condition to avoid capitalizing for short forms such as A1 or A2: the short form must not contain any digit.

• Help
  The help topics for Includes and Productivity have been corrected. In addition, the (unwanted) display of Help when editing some field values in the Line Count dialog was corrected.
• Shortcuts on German and Japanese keyboards.
  The handling of shortcuts such as Alt= and Alt+ has been revised to work on keyboards that use a different layout for these keys.
• Shortcuts in Outlook Express.
  Shortcuts such as Ctrl+N are now handled in all situations.
• Expansion with the Mouse
  Correction of a problem that occurred when expanding with the mouse in some applications.
• Client Applications
  The treatment of automatic spacing has been corrected for Meditech (the T.exe variant), AOL, Lotus 123, Visual Basic, and Agent. A new client application was added: Palm Desktop.

Revisions - Technical Forums - Support

The lastest revision is announced by email to registered users and also in the Instant Text forum.

In addition to the Instant Text forum, Textware Solutions maintains two technical forums covering MS Word and WordPerfect. The MS Word forum, animated by Cheryl Flanders already includes close to 3000 useful messages. Finally, the Productivity Talk forum, animated by Harrie Weidenbacher, has frequent discussions related to Instant Text.

Technical Forums:

• Instant Text Main Forum
• MS Word for Medical Transcription
• WordPerfect for Medical Transcription
• Productivity Talk

If you have not visited these forums lately, you may want to look at the message titles and see that they are very good places for exchanging tips, suggestions, and techniques. You may also use the powerful Find feature to find all messages on a given subject.

Of course electronic forums are no substitute for an active support line! As usual, for specific questions or when you need urgent help, you can call our support phone line at 781-272-3200 ext. 2 or email support@textware.com

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Last modified 25 May 2007