Hi Charles,
you are right delegs is a
wonderful and very powerful tool to support anybody to learn SL or spoken
language. It just depends on the dictionary. So the more entries and
alternatives the better the chance to produce perfect documents, vocabulary
lists, diary, songs, word bey word translations, ASL or signed English – just depends
on the scribe.
Did you see that you can
write with the SignPuddle ASL dictionary as basis? If you want to print your document
you first have to produce a pdf.document. Afterwards you can save at your computer
or print or ... what you want. – We are still improving this program. Next step
will be to get the chance to change/rewrite entries for a given document.
Have a wonderful weekend
Stefan
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I am
impressed with DELEGS, it does look like a unique glossing system.
Charles
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From: Valerie Sutton
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Subject: Re: ISWA 2010 font
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May 2, 2012
Hi Charles -
Steve's
message below was referring to something else -
SignPuddle
2.0 is now using the database font. It does not change how users use the
software. It is on the technical level, behind the software, regarding how the
ISWA 2010 symbols are retrieved - it is faster and cleaner to use the database
font, from a programming perspective - so it is not changing how we use
SignPuddle.
Regarding
using SignWriter DOS…I am sure you know that it can be used right now?…I use
SignWriter DOS occasionally still…If you want to do that, you can download
DOSBox and install it, and then use SignWriter DOS inside DOSBox - It works on
both Mac and Windows…SignWriter DOS is still very much alive.
http://www.dosbox.com
And then
there is a wonderful new program for writing ASL and DGS (German Sign
Language). Have you tried used DELEGS for ASL? It makes it possible to keyboard
English and get the equivalent in ASL, drawing from the SignPuddle Online ASL
database - you might consider it - I am really impressed with DELEGS…
http://www.delegs.com/DelegsPage/
Val ;-)
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On May 2,
2012, at 11:10 AM, Charles Butler wrote:
So with
this could we get back to what was possible with the old SignWriter program,
able to switch between Roman alphabet sentences and SW signs and back again in
the same message, search for a sign, find and replace, and all the other
"normal" things for word processing? I'd love to be able to keyboard
signs again instead of being dependent upon a mouse-driven program.
Charles
Butler
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From: Steve Slevinski <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 1:48
PM
Subject: ISWA 2010 font database
is ready
Greetings list,
I've updated the ISWA 2010 font reference to include the ISWA 2010 font
database.
http://signpuddle.net/iswa
I've updated the SignWriting Image Server to be able to use the database
font. Available on GitHub.
https://github.com/Slevinski/SWIS
The font database is an improvement in size and speed. Instead of tens of
thousands of files, multiple fonts can be included in a single file. The
increase in speed is noticeable when comparing the filesystem font to the
database font. Very exciting.
Regards,
-Steve