AutoBrief

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

Does anyone know how you go in and tell AutoBrief you don't want it to suggest a certain stroke?  I have done it before but now I can't remember what I did.  I am having a hard time writing FPB and AutoBrief suggests it all the time.

 

Any suggestions?  Thanks.

[Christy Fagan, CRR, RMR, CSR]

Look in the help file.  It's like minus signs or something.  Like I have it set up where it's only double strokes so that the stroke TO or AN or GIN doesn't make a crazy auto brief come up. So all my briefs are AB/AB or GIN/GIN.  It's under programming tab and autobrief. 

I need to know if you can set it so it doesn't suggest words like I/I or AN/AN because when they repeat a word over and over like a false start, if I don't stick the dash in there, it puts the auto brief phrase or word in there instead of two ANs and it looks crazy.  So I have to stroke AN -- AN or it will put "analgesic medicine" in there instead of "an an" or "I I". 

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

Yeah, I have had it write some crazy stuff that was not said when I am in realtime jobs sometimes.

[Christy Fagan, CRR, RMR, CSR]

Let me get my laptop out and I'll see what it says to do.

[Cindy Boedy]

Go to your autobrief dictionary for that job and delete that out of the dictionary.

[Christy Fagan, CRR, RMR, CSR]

You go to Settings, Programming, Auto-Brief Steno Theory.  Double click it and it opens it.  Then type:

-FPB

In their examples, they don't show if it has to be -FPB or -FN, but I would think it's the actualy keys PB that you need to put in there instead of N.

That should do it.

Their example in the Help file shows -* if you don't want an asterisk in there or -SZ if you don't want SZ in an autobrief suggestion.

[Christy Fagan, CRR, RMR, CSR]

And we also need to be able to right click on a brief on the table on our screen and tell it to delete it without having to open up our Job Dictionary and deleting it.  Sometimes you have just enough time to reach up and right-click and select Delete but you don't have time to be switching screens between your Job Dict and your realtime job.

I know you can use the autobrief reject realtime command to get rid of the last one, but you can't skip one.  So half the time the last brief is great but there's one about 3 words up that's horrible that I want out of there so I don't accidentally stroke it (like "T T" for the word "the" said twice".  And you have to go in your JD and delete it.  Pain in the rear.  With Stenocat you could click and delete it and it showed different colors for briefs you've used in the past, you could designate favorite briefs as another color and keep them on the screen so you could use them in every job till you learned them. I haven't downloaded 5 yet because of Windows 7 issues they were having, but I'm going to do that today and I think they have changed some of the autobrief stuff.

[Brenda Rogers]

-FPB

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

Christy, I didn't know we even had the capability to right click on the suggestion and tell it no.  That's interesting.

 

 

Thank you, Christy, I think that's just what I needed. 

[Christy Fagan, CRR, RMR, CSR]

We don't!  We need to tell Eclipse to add that, if they haven't already.  I could do it in Stenocat but not Eclipse.  I've only been on Eclipse for about 11 months.

[Christy Fagan, CRR, RMR, CSR]

I just type NO*/NO* and it rejects the last brief suggested, but it won't let you skip the last couple of them and go up three or four AB suggestions and delete it without deleting all of them to get to it.  So if you have a great one at the bottom and you tell it to reject, then it won't suggest it anymore and you can't use it unless you manually add it or take it out of your AJREJECT dictionary, I guess.

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

Some of the finger twisters AutoBrief gives you as suggestions are ridiculous; I can't make my fingers distort that way super fast.  Sort of frustrating.

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

Check out this thread for A/B info:

http://csrnation.ning.com/group/totaleclipse/forum/topics/latest-up...

 

I would like to encourage everyone to stop two stroking briefs. Before you yell at me, I will tell you I completely understand.  There are a few things I still double stroke myself.  However -- oh, just make up the rest of what I'm going to say.  I'm sure you can figure it out!