MessagEase is based on a novel keyboard idea.  There are only 12 buttons on MessagEases keyboard.  
That makes these buttons big and easy to find and tap.  But you can enter ALL letters, numbers and special 
characters using only these 11 keys!

To enter Text on MessagEase:
The most frequent 9 letters are assigned to the center of the top 9 keys.
To enter most frequent 9 letters E, T, A, O, N, I, R, S, or H: Just Tap ONCE on its key. For example, to 
enter A tap on key marked by bold A in the (the top-left key).

There are 8 less frequent letters positioned around the center key, around the letter O:
To enter these less frequent 8 letters: U, P, B, J, D, G, C, or Q: Drag your pan from the center key (marked 
with O) in the direction of that letter. For example, to enter U, drag up from anywhere on the center key.

To enter less frequent 8 letters: V, L, X, M, F, W, Y, or K: Drag from its key toward the direction of that 
letter, that is toward the center
For example, to enter V, drag diagonally towards the center key.

Entering Capital Letters:
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Capitalization using capshift and caplock:
Drag up on key marked with (123) to change to initalcap mode (Initialcap mode is indicated with a solid 
arrow on that key;  The shape of this arrow conforms to Palm's user interface convention.)  Drag up again 
to change to caplock mode (broken arrow shows).  Drag up again or drag down anytime to get back to the 
lowercase mode (gray arrow shows). MessagEase Automatically capitalizes when a period, question mark, 
or exclamation mark is followed by a space.

On-Spot capital letters:
Starting with version 2.4, you can enter a capital letter by drawing a small circle instead of a tap
(for more frequent letters) and a drag and return (for less frequent letters).

Entering Special Characters:
You enter special characters by dragging from its key toward its direction. If you want to see them while 
you type,  you can drag up on the key marked with space to see all the markings for special characters.  
Another drag up on the space key makes those special characters disappear.  Or you can tap the key 
marked  "123" to bring up the #/special character screen.  You can however enter special without having to 
make them show. For example, on the numbers screen, drag from key 3 to key 2 to enter"? Which 
corresponds to dragging from key I to key N on the "Ab" screen.  To enter @, drag diagonally from key 6 
to key 8 which also corresponds to dragging from key R to key E.

Entering more special characters:
You can combine 2 characters to get special characters beyond those found on a regular computer 
keyboard.  You do this by entering each character then entering the combine command (drag up-left from 
key A). For example, to get "" enter "e", then enter "^", then enter combine (drag up-left from key A.  
Additionally, if you just enter A and continuously use the combine command, MessagEase will run through 
all the "combining" possibilities for each letter.  By doing so you can potentially get more than 7000 
characters.  Think Kanji! See the table in the readme fiel for all the combining possibilities.

Keeping your text and moving it to other applications:
After you compose some text, you can invoke any application and paste that text into that application.  
When you leave MessagEase, it automatically copies the content of its buffer (or what you highlight on it) 
to the clippboard.   You can also highlight and save any piece of text by assigning it to powerful macros.  
For example, you can write and highlight an entire page and then drag up twice on the key i/3.  Then you 
can tap, say key a, to assign your writing to that key.  Your text will be saved under the letter a. To recall it, 
all you have to do is to drag up on key i/3 ONCE (for macro recall) and then tap on key a.
