Treat ink as Handwriting or Drawing

[Achille]

I promise this will be the last question,,, but
IF i'm doing math, should I treat ink as handwriting or as drawing ?
I don't even know the difference
thx, Achille

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I would probably treat it as drawing for equations.

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[Kathy J]

I agree with Diane, but thought you might like a little on the difference
between handwriting and drawings. (FYI Diane: I've been asked this before.
It might make a great tip for OneNoteTips.)

If you make it handwriting, and you are on a tablet, OneNote will try to
convert the handwriting to your default language. If you leave it as a
drawing, OneNote won't change it at all. Since you are entering data that is
not normal words, I would leave it as a drawing.

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[Grant Robertson]

IF i'm doing math, should I treat ink as handwriting or as drawing ?
I don't even know the difference

I generally use Journal for things like equations and drawings. I like
being able to group things and move them around as a unit. I then create
a link from the OneNote page to the Journal file.

 

[Pi_Buster]

I have worked with OneNote and maths a lot now, and as far as I can tell you
don't have a choice - you have to work with all your maths (and text around
the maths) as drawings - otherwise the whole thing will become corrupted -
as OneNote believes it has the right to, and tries to, move around the
"words". It can look fine for a while - but sometimes I try to print the
pages from my students and I get garbage. If you resize a page or paste the
text can dissolve on you!

Here are my tips for happy maths (I mean real maths - greek symbols evey
other word, etc.) in OneNote

a) Before you start: Fix a paper width/margins. Make this compatible with
your printer so that what you write will fit on a page for printing without
resizing and dont ever go beyond those borders.
b) Treat ink as drawing by default.

Most of the OneNote features will no longer work (searching for words is the
most serious). But you will be able to write your notes and get them back as
well as print them for yourself and others.

If you put a blank line or so between paragraphs one-note seems to put page
breaks in sensible places. When you get used to it, selcting formulae works
quite well (under SP1 Preview) and one seems to be able to select one
formulae without its neighbours.

Terry

I would be pleased to be told that the handwriting and drawing can safely
co-exist - by someone with experiance. I have hundreds of pages of notes -
many math formulae are in line for example a simple integral (given here in
Latex form): $\int_{x=0}^{x=t}f(x) dt$
but it is distrous if parts of the equations and text start moving around
and losing their relative alignment. Equations have to flow in their
entirety with the text. As such equations often span several lines and i
think it is simply unrealistic to expect OneNote to cope. But it would be
usefull it it still scanned the drawing for words and indexed them. (Perhaps
it does).

 

[Chris H.]

If you're very much into math, you may be very interested in a wonderful
little program called MathJournal from the folks at xThink:
http://www.xthink.com/MathJournal.html
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