Hand style recognition software and touch in Ubuntu

[Firidan]

I was thinking about buying asus eee T101 tablet. Does ubuntu support touch screens? Is there software for linux that recognizes hand style input with support for mathematical symbols and functions (sin, cos, tan, integral, graphs, etc?

Thanks in advance!

[isoscelesrectangle]

There is a wiki page here on the T101MT: (Hardware compatibility, touch-screen, on-screen keyboards, etc.) I would start by looking here.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/T101MT

There is a thread here for Ubuntu Lucid on the T101MT: (You can ask the awesome people here. They'll be happy to help you out.)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1442164&page=2

Anyhow, if you do buy it, let me know how it goes. I've been eyeing one of these for quite a while.

[Firidan]

Thanks for your help!

I have found an even better tablet Packard Bell butterfly touch. It has got 11 high res screen and MUCH better specs than asus eee t101 and costs like 599 US dollars or something like that. I think i will buy the butterfly touch since a lot of people complained that asus t101 is really slow.

[schmolch]

There is only one handwriting recognition program and thats cellwriter.
Its good but limited.
It can not recognize words or sentences, just individual letters/symbols.
It can recognize almost any kind of symbol including weird exotic languages or mathematical signs.
However you can not write something like a mathematical fraction or square-root of something as a whole since it can only recognize individual symbols.

I can also recommend xournal which is basically a sheet of paper with some simple tools like straight line, selection, pen-sizes, colors etc.

Before you buy that thing research what kind of touchscreen it has and if it works in Linux.

[Firidan]

Darn. Looks like regardless of what tablet I buy I will have to stick to windows since it has great hand style recognition with support for math formulas.

[jpfle]

Maybe you could try JEquation (http://jequation.sourceforge.net/) (mathematical handwriting recognition for Latex).