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SignWriting Lists February 16, 2012 On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Ingvild Roald wrote: > As the length of the pause is important, at least in NSL, it is very good that we do have possibility to write and adjust this. Thanks for the oportunity, ---------- And thank you, Ingvild, for the opportunity to discuss this information - Yes, it has always been a part of the SignWriting system, to be able to write longer pauses by spreading the space between the two lines - that actually came originally from writing horizontally, based on phrases in the music - imagine if you had musical counts or notes above the signing in SignWriting, and you wanted the signers to pause for many counts in the music…the lines would be used to mark how many counts the pause extended over… Take a look at this screen capture…and the web pages that explain writing signing with music are listed below… Also read: http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less021.html http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less022.html http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less023.html http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less024.html http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less025.html Val ;-) Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] SignWriting List Archives & Home Page http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 SignWriting Read & Write Sign Languages http://www.SignWriting.org SignPuddle Online Write SignWriting in the Clouds! Documents, Dictionaries, SignMail http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle SignWriting Wiki Wiki-style Articles in Sign Languages http://www.signbank.org/wiki SignWriting List Technical Support: Ask questions... http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist SignWriting Literature Project Writing Literature in Sign Languages http://www.SignWriting.org/literature SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects Writing Encyclopedias in Sign Languages http://www.SignWriting.org/encyclopedia SignWriting Sponsors Forum Help Educational Non-Profit Organization http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/sponsors SignWriting Shop Books, DVDs, Lessons, Services http://www.SignWriting.org/shop Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Center For Sutton Movement Writing a US educational nonprofit organization PO Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038, USA Tel: 858-456-0098 Skype: valeriesutton SignWriting on Twitter http://twitter.com/signwriting SignWriting on YouTube http://youtube.com/signwriting SignWriting on Facebook http://facebook.com/SignWriting