在之前有关平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)的教程中，我已经展示了如何使用它以及如何对其进行个性化设置，使其与您的笔迹保持一致。您可以做一些剩余的事情来使它更容易，例如使用特殊的笔移动来加快和简化文本输入和编辑(entry and editing)。
在便携式计算机使事情变得更容易之前的日子里，人们学会了速记(shorthand)以更快地写下来。由于平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)是为手写而设计的，对于许多人来说这可能比打字慢，因此手势可以使常用的编辑命令更快。
我已经提到了一些很多人经常使用的手势，尽管我当时并没有专门称它们为手势。当你在错误中划出一条线，或者潦草地写出来让错误消失(mistake disappear)时，你实际上是在使用一个手势。还记得平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)窗口顶部的校正视频按钮吗？(correction video)这些实际上也向您展示了如何使用手势。（请参阅前面的教程 - Windows 7 的平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)：文本输入和手写识别(Entry and Handwriting Recognition)- 以刷新您的记忆。）很简单，手势是您用笔做出的动作，或用笔绘制的符号，即不会在屏幕上显示为角色，而是告诉平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)做一些事情。
手势支持英语(English)、日语、中文(Chinese)（繁体(Traditional)）、中文(Chinese)（简体(Simplified)）、韩语(Korean)、德语(German)、法语(French)、意大利语(Italian)、荷兰语(Dutch)、西班牙语(Spanish)和葡萄牙语(Portuguese)（巴西(Brazil)）。与其他语言相比，中文(Chinese)还有一组额外的手势。
你可能已经知道手势了
如果您使用的PDA可以让您通过手写笔在其上书写来输入文本，那么您已经熟悉了手势。平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)没有PDA(PDAs)那样广泛的手势列表，但那里的手势非常有用。当您使用手势时，平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)会接受它，就像您在键盘上键入命令，或者将其写在书写板或字符(pad or character pad)板上一样。
但是，与在PDA(PDA)上使用手势有一个主要区别，这可能需要一点时间来适应——您必须确保在使用手势时书写空间上没有其他墨水。(no other ink on the writing space)如果还有东西，平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)会尝试将手势识别为某种字符。（唯一不会发生这种情况的情况是您正在敲击或乱写什么。）所以，写下您想要的，将其转移到选择的应用程序，然后挥手离开。
让我们做手势！
要使用手势，请点击工具(Tools)菜单，然后点击选项(Options)，然后在高级(Advanced)选项卡上选择“使用手持计算机上常用的手势”('Use gestures commonly used on handheld computers')（默认选中）或'Use gestures from the Simplified Chinese (PRC) standard, GB/T 18790-2002' - 如果你用中文写作。
这是手势的样子。在每种情况下，您首先将笔放在线条末尾的点所在的位置，然后如图所示绘制手势的其余部分。例如，退格是从右到左绘制的一条线。(line drawn)
来源：(Source:) 掌上电脑上常用的手势(Gestures commonly used on handheld computers)。
以下是仅用于中文的手势。如您所见，它们与上面的标准手势基本相同。
为了向您展示手势的工作原理，我将使用相当于按键盘上的Enter键的手势。确保(Make)您所写的内容已被识别并转移（在本例中，转移到记事本(Notepad)中）。光标位于行尾。
现在，确保您的笔尖压在数位板上，画一条垂直线，然后进行直角转弯并继续向左移动。在您从数位板上提起笔之前，线条的左侧部分应至少比垂直部分长两到四倍，甚至更长。手势应该尽可能快和流畅地完成。
请注意(Notice)，光标现在位于记事本(Notepad)中的下一行。
继续写下一行。
当您第一次尝试此操作时，您的手势可能无法正确识别（对于大多数人来说，需要一些尝试和错误(trial and error)才能使其正确）。尝试更快地书写手势，并确保线条的左侧部分明显长于垂直部分。您可能需要多次尝试才能获得速度和线路长度(speed and line length)的正确组合。继续(Just)努力，它会来的！
这些建议也适用于其他手势（退格、空格和制表符）。写得更快，让行更长(line longer)通常是成功的关键。练习后，您将能够加快文本输入速度，并通过书写而不是使用键盘来完成大部分您需要的工作。练习这项新技能绝对值得付出努力。
把它们放在一起
在本系列教程中，我了解了Tablet Input Panel的功能，从简单到复杂。在自己学习如何使用它时，我发现它很像我们在学校所学的——印刷，然后是草书，然后是速记。使用平板电脑输入面板进行(Tablet Input Panel)书写(Writing)和编辑比用笔书写要快，因为您几乎可以立即修复错误并轻松移动文本。如果您有平板电脑或触摸屏设备，那么练习使用平板电脑输入面板(Tablet Input Panel)的众多功能是成功的关键！
Tablet Input Panel: Using Gestures for Speed and Convenience
In prеvious tutоrials about Tablet Input Panel, I've shown how to use it and how to personalize it so it's in tune with your handwriting.There are a few remaining things you can do to make it even easier, like using special pen movements to speed up and simplify text entry and editing.
In the days before portable computers made things easier, people learned shorthand to make writing things down faster. Since Tablet Input Panel is designed for handwriting, which may be slower than typing for many people, gestures can make common editing commands faster.
I've already mentioned some of the gestures that many people use a lot, although I didn't specifically call them gestures at the time. When you draw a line through a mistake, or scribble it out to make the mistake disappear, you're actually using a gesture. And remember those correction video buttons at the top of the Tablet Input Panel window? Those are actually showing you how to use gestures as well. (See the previous tutorial - Windows 7's Tablet Input Panel: Text Entry and Handwriting Recognition - to refresh your memory.) Very simply, a gesture is a motion that you make with your pen, or a symbol that you draw with your pen, that doesn't show up as a character on your screen, but rather tells Tablet Input Panel to do something.
Gestures work in English, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Korean, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese (Brazil). There's an additional set of gestures for Chinese compared to other language.
You might know about gestures already
If you've used a PDA that let you enter text by writing on it with a stylus, you'll already be familiar with gestures. Tablet Input Panel doesn't have as extensive a list of gestures as PDAs do, but what's there is very useful. When you use a gesture, Tablet Input Panel accepts it as if you'd typed the command on the keyboard, or written it on the writing pad or character pad.
However, there is one major difference from using gestures on a PDA, and this may take a little getting used to—you must make sure that there's no other ink on the writing space when you use the gesture. If there's something still there, Tablet Input Panel will try to recognize the gesture as a character of some kind. (The only time this does not happen is if you're striking or scribbling something out.) So, write what you want, transfer it to the application of choice, and then gesture away.
Let's gesture!
To use gestures, tap the Tools menu, then tap Options, and on the Advanced tab select either 'Use gestures commonly used on handheld computers' (which is selected by default) or 'Use gestures from the Simplified Chinese (PRC) standard, GB/T 18790-2002' - if you are writing in Chinese.
Here are what the gestures look like. In each case, you start by putting your pen down where the dot at the end of the line is, and then draw the rest of the gesture as shown. A backspace is a line drawn from right to left, for example.
Source: Gestures commonly used on handheld computers.
Here are the gestures that are used just for Chinese. As you can see, they are mostly the same as the standard gestures above.
To show you how a gesture works, I'll use the one that's equivalent to pressing the Enter key on a keyboard. Make sure that what you've written has been recognized and transferred (in this example, into Notepad). The cursor is at the end of the line.
Now, making sure that your pen's tip is pressed to the tablet, draw a vertical line, then make a right-angle turn and continue to your left. The left part of the line should be at least two to four times longer than the vertical part, or even longer, before you lift the pen from the tablet. The gesture should be done as quickly and as smoothly as you can.
Notice that the cursor is now positioned on the next line in Notepad.
Continue writing on the next line.
When you first try this, your gesture might not be recognized properly (it takes a bit of trial and error to get it right, for most people). Try writing the gesture faster and make sure the leftward part of the line is noticeably longer than the vertical part. It might take you several tries to get the right combination of speed and line length. Just keep working, it will come!
These suggestions work for the other gestures as well (backspace, space, and tab). Writing faster and making the line longer is usually the key to success. Once you've practiced, you'll be able to speed up your text entry and do most of what you need by writing rather than by using the keyboard. Practicing this new skill is definitely worth the effort.
Putting it all together
In this series of tutorials I've gone through Tablet Input Panel's capabilities, from the simple to the complex. In learning how to use it myself, I found that it was rather like what we learned in school—printing, then cursive, then shorthand. Writing and editing with the Tablet Input Panel can be faster than writing with a pen, because you can fix mistakes almost instantly and move your text around with ease. If you have a tablet or touchscreen device, practicing with the Tablet Input Panel's many capabilities is the key to success!
