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SignWriting List December 31, 2011 Hi Steve, Jonathan and Stefan - Regarding programming horizontal writing... When programming SignWriter DOS, I believe Rich Gleaves centered the signs without any notice of the heads when pasting in from the dictionary - the whole sign as a unit was centered …you can see this if you download DOSBox for either Mac or Windows and install SignWriter DOS and play with the program for a while… I just tried it... DosBox http://www.dosbox.com/ Download SignWriter DOS http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/sw44/index.html but I remember there was a way to center signs with a keystroke in SignWriter DOS and I cannot remember it right now - I would suggest writing to Rich Gleaves to ask him - And then the DELEGS program may be programmed differently - how do you center a sign in DELEGS, Stefan? Val ;-) --------- On Dec 31, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote: > Hi Jonathan & Stefan, > > Happy New Year. > > Horizontal writing is important and fundamental for using SignWriting. I'm glad you are both involved with SignWriting applications. > > Regarding horizontal writing, how do you center? Is it based on the center of the entire sign image? Is it based on the center of the head & trunk symbol cluster like vertical writing? Other than head bobbing, does it matter? > > Looking forward to 2012, > -Steve >