I'm planning on migrating from vocola/Unimacro to KnowBrainer when I get ahold of NaturallySpeaking Premium 11 (hopefully tomorrow).

One particularly useful Unimacro macro that was kindly written for me will take a selection and transform it to uppercase and insert hyphens between the letters as in the following example:

"David Kehler" becomes "D-A-V-I-D K-E-H-L-E-R".

I need this because in doing court transcription, this is how it is denoted when somebody is spelling their name, for example.

I was thinking that the best way to accomplish this in KnowBrainer would be to copy the selection to the clipboard, then manipulate it and paste it back after being modified.  In researching this idea, I have not stumbled across an easy way to dump the contents of the clipboard into a variable for manipulation.  Is this possible in KnowBrainer and/or is this the best way to accomplish my goal?

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David

The trick is trying to figure out how to put a hyphen between each letter. The all CAP part is simple enough to do with HeardWord script.

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I was envisioning some sort of loop based on the length of the selected text, but again, is it possible to set a variable to the value of the clipboard?


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David

This would be the way to do it, but only the Professional version has variables and string operations required.

Rüdiger

 

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Well, it's past the point where we can make any changes in the code, but we can still make changes to the Easter Egg!

^ Really?  KnowBrainer seems to have string manipulation tools that should be up to the task if I could just figure out how to manipulate the contents of the clipboard.


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David

I don't know, perhaps so, although I don't think so, but how would you want to do that when not having variables?

Rüdiger

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Well, it's past the point where we can make any changes in the code, but we can still make changes to the Easter Egg!

^ I presumed there were variables because there are things like I = 22, loop until I = 0, I = I -1 possible in KnowBrainer.  What is "I" if not a variable?


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David

Are you sure that this is genuine KnowBrainer code?

Rüdiger

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Well, it's past the point where we can make any changes in the code, but we can still make changes to the Easter Egg!

Maybe I'm getting confused.  It appears to be in the verbal BASIC manual, which I presumed was the guide to writing commands in KnowBrainer.

In any event, I have now solved my problem by going back to vocola, which, in fact, works with Dragon 11. I realize it's not quite as powerful as KnowBrainer, and I appreciate that Lunis gives KnowBrainer away to people like me with disabilities, but vocola, even with its quirks, seems to be far easier to use in most cases.

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David

The looping command you were referencing is available in KnowBrainer but KnowBrainer's command capabilities are limited, especially this area.

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At the opposite end of the spectrum, one thing I commonly do in my line of work is turn D-A-V-I-D into david. That's very easy to do using Find and Replace and No Caps That. Like Lunis was saying, the tricky part is figuring out how to reliably get that hyphen in to a printed word after every letter. I can be done, I'm sure. I also bet that the professional consultants on this board could show you how to do it. Personally, it's beyond the scope of my abilities. What does seem simple, though, if you're comfortable with spelling, is a "Letter mode." That is, you could say "Letter Mode on" and then spell your name and Dragon would produce D-A-V-I-D.

If that suits your needs I might be able to start the script for you, but it's not what you asked for so maybe there are better ideas out there.

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^ That sounds like a reasonable alternative if what I'm proposing is not possible.  I'm fairly certain I can get my idea to work if it's possible to manipulate the contents of the clip board via a variable.


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David