Permalink Reply by amy on February 1, 2008 at 3:54
i do years with the number bar, use R if the numbers need to be reversed, U if the numbers need to be doubled, and E for the apostrophe
'01 would be 10-ER
'02 would be 20-ER
'06 would be 0E6
'77 would be EU7
it's really easy after a while
for the 2000 years i write the number with OU
2001 would be 1OU
2006 would be OU6
int is also SPW for me, so interior is SPWR-R
anything i've tried to do for exterior is so close that i just do EX/TR-R
Tracy,
I don't know what CAT system you're on, but in CATalyst you can define a stroke to go back to the last number you've written and apply certain formats to them, like adding a dollar sign,etc. I have a stroke that will go back and put an apostrophe in front of the last number I wrote in a file. It will search back the last number and insert the apostrophe. In Catalyst it's defined as : {Prefix Number}[']
The stroke can be anything you can think of to make it easy, maybe AP or AEP or A*P or whatever suits your needs.
The entire left upper keyboard and right upper keyboard has always been my stroke for the apostrophe before years. Weather it's pre or post-millenium years, just hit the entire upper keyboard all at once, left and right. That stroke doesn't conflict with anything else and it always worked well for me. Good luck!
SWR + -R (zero), UPB (one), AO (two), AE (three), OR (four), EUF (five), EUBGS (six), EFPB (seven), AE(G)T (eight), EUPB (nine).
just do the programming: '01 through '09
-- oh, and SWR + EPB for '010.
These are how I write just the numbers and I would follow them with a number trigger to make the apostrophe(D-GT might be the Eclipse default) ##/##/## is what it looks like, I believe.
Now that you mention it, I might put an asterisk in these outlines and use them for the apostrophe entries.
I like your picture. The shape looked snail-like. ^^
Enjoy.