Hello Yair,
    Nice work with your new keyboard-based SignWriting input method. At first I didn't like the fact that you have positioning, plane change and rotation twice (one for each symbol being edited) I am not used to editing two symbols simultaneously, that's just too much for me. So I end up editing one, then editing the other. So I thing you could have only on set of these. I like the way we can choose how many fingers are showing. Once you get the grasp of it (it is hard at first), it is really cool.

    I'm not much for rotating one rotation at a time. I like how it is shown in the basic instruction books. That's were I got the idea for the hand choosers in SignWriter Studio. But it only works well for the hands and some arrows.

    I noticed a design flaw that we all do when we try to show the hand symbols right hand and left hand. There are three hand facings in the font. palm side, thumb edge of hand, back of hand. When doing right hand, left hand symbol choosers, you need to include the baby finger side of hand. The baby finger side of hand are the same symbols as the other hand's thumb edge of hand. So basically you need to add one more palm facing to your program and the logic to show the right ones, because the code will be like the opposite hand's thumb edge of hand.

You know you have it's right when you can write a sign like this using the right and left hands selectors. The flat hand is a left and the other is the right hand.

money
cash, budget

    I also noticed that the SWIFT program has the same limitation.

Claudia,
    So far I have read through your annexes and am working on reading your dissertation. I hand it quite interesting so far. I spent some time analysing the hand shapes when I wrote SignWriter Studio but wasn't able to look so it depth at the movement symbols and other symbols as you did. I might have a few suggestions for you if you are interested.

Claudia, Maria, Fabrizio,
    Do you plan on upgrading SWIFT to use ISWA2010 or develop all the glyphs for ISWABiachini any time soon? Or are you wanting to explore more the OGR and the video transcription now?
    Is ISWABianchini still open for additions? I was wondering if it would be possible to add the baby finger edge of hand to it? What do you think?

    Also I was thinking that when we make the glyphs for ISWABianchini, that no two symbols look exactly alike. Now sometimes we can only tell the thumb edge of hand from baby finger edge of hand by it's context in the sign. (and also wether it's a right hand of left hand) This makes some software automation more difficult, like going from a receptive view to an expressive view. Also some symbols that don't have a specific finger showing, it's hard to know which hand it is without the context of the sign. Then the is the fist that we can't even tell what the rotation is in the wall plane ( in the floor plane, the knuckle line shows so it is clear, still have the right hand, left hand issue though).

Regards,
    Jonathan

On 8/31/2014 11:23 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:

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On Aug 31, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Yair Rand <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Finally, I'd like to unveil my new keyboard-based SignWriting input method, available here. (I'm hosting it at Google Drive until I can figure out a better location.) It's written in javascript and should work in all major browsers. The script is still a work-in-progress, and doesn't have all of the symbols yet. Many of the symbols are not in the best locations (partly because I don't understand what all of the symbols mean), and there's probably going to be a lot of bugs in the current version. Please take a look, test it out, and give lots of feedback. Happy typing. :)

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Hello Yair!

There is so much to talk about in your message, but I just had to jump to the section in your message about your new development…a way to type SignWriting with a keyboard design… Thank you for taking this new idea upon your shoulders. Maybe we can host it on SignWriting.org, or SignBank.org? Would that be feasible? Or maybe it really belongs on Wikimedia in the future… But we will be happy to host it if that is good for you...

As you know years ago we developed a way to type in SignWriter DOS, and I noticed you plan to have a Fingerspelling mode, just as we have in SignWriter DOS. I can give you the Fingerspelling mappings for around 17 sign languages, which you will need sooner or later…

May I show you our symbol design from the SignWriter DOS keyboard, so you can see what all the symbols mean? I believe that will help, even if you do not use our design, you can at least learn from it…

But take a look at this new way of tying SignWriting, everyone - I think this has potential -

https://806e8abcad89c3043886d9f62a7903edbba39fa1.googledrive.com/host/0B1Pz4n6wXAfvT18yOTFoSE5Sa2s/SWKB.html

Yair Rand SignWriting Keyboard

Val ;-)
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