William, I'm not familiar with this aspect of the keyboard section in System Preferences. I have yet to purchase this application, of course, so I will certainly give that a look as well.
Regards, Harry On Jul 25, 2012, at 3:07 AM, William Windels wrote: > Hello Harry, > I haven't bought this app for the mac but on the iPhone, it was very > accessible. > On the mac, I find it very expensive while there is a free alternative built > in to the mac which is doing basically the same. > If you go to system preferences > keyboard > tab control keyboard > button > input sources > text: you can do there the same. a difference could be that > you can't type whole paragraphs because the return/enter key isn't accepted. > For this reason , I don't buy text expander for the mac. > > If there are comments from others about that, please feel free to give a > reaction. > > kind regards, > William Windels > Op 25-jul.-2012, om 10:30 heeft Harry Hogue het volgende geschreven: > >> Hi, guys, >> >> I would be very surprised if there isn't at least one member of this list >> who doesn't already use this application, but I just heard about it tonight >> on a podcast, and just now downloaded the free trial (the full version may >> be purchased for $35.00). It is called Text Expander, and it allows you to >> assign abbreviations to type out your e-mail address, your e-mail signature, >> your home address, or even entire paragraphs of text. If I had text >> expander running, for example, I could type, "You may contact me at ;em if >> you have any questions." Then, the ";em" (without the quotes) would become >> my e-mail address. It is fully accessible, and in fact mentions enabling >> universal access at the outset. I will warn that it is a bit pesky at >> first, at least with the trial, as it wants yo to purchase, then sign up for >> the news letter, etc. but it truly does seem like a fantastic application. >> Again, it is $35.00 and runs on the Mac OS. A feature which seems very >> useful, but which I have yet to try, is an ability to fill in custom fields >> when writing a reply,. The example they give is for a response to a >> donation to a company, where the responder wishes to thank the donor and >> tell ways in which his or her specific dollar amount will be used. I can >> definitely see myself using it when filling out online forms which >> constantly ask for name, e-mail, home address, telephone, cell, etc. >> >> The website is www.smilesoftware.com/textexpander. I haven't looked at any >> of the other applications on the site yet, and I was very surprised to find >> this worked as well as it does and is as accessible as it is. So far, it is >> completely useable. The only interesting point is that the test areas in >> the tutorial, where you go to set up the various snippets, as it calls the >> abbreviations for text to be inserted, is that the test area to try the >> abbreviations out do not work, at least when I tried it. >> >> Again, if you have any questions feel free to ask. I have just started >> using it, as of about ten minutes ago, but it truly seems fantastic. For >> those with some sight, visuals such as images may also be inserted. >> >> Take care. Is anyone else looking forward to seeing how the dictation >> feature may or may not work so well in Mountain Lion? I'm always unsure of >> dictation programs and things of that sort. >> >> Take care, >> >> Harry >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
