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Steve, Are we supposed to be able to see the character SignWriting (CSW) in email? It didn't render for me in Thunderbird. Bill On 12/7/2012 12:29 PM, Steve Slevinski wrote: > Hi Eduardo, > > That's an excellent idea. Such a trimming could produce language > dependent fonts. > > The reduced fonts should be based on actual usage. The ASL > Dictionary in SignPuddles provides live statistics based on over > 10,000 signs using the search algorithms of SignWriting Text. > http://signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/frequency.php?ui=1&sgn=4 > > Looking at the first group of hand shapes: > > > > You can process the data directly from the SPML files, or I can create > an alternate form of the symbol frequency data. > > We will also need one for Libras: > http://signbank.org/sp20/index.php?ui=1&sgn=46 > > I hope 2013 will be the year that the Libras Wikipedia project > starts. It's currently just a stub. > http://bzs.wikipedia.wmflabs.org > > If you can get this working, I'll have to re-implement the original > Unicode compromise proposal that I dropped in 2011. > > We have FSW: formal SignWriting: > M518x529S14c20481x471S27106503x489 > M518x533S1870a489x515S18701482x490S20500508x496S2e734500x468 S38800464x496 > > We have CSW: character SignWriting: > ????????????? ??????????????????????? ????? > > Here is ISW: intermixed SignWriting > M518x529???481x471???503x489 M518x533???489x515???482x490 > ???508x496???500x468 ???464x496 > > Here is how the ISW could look after you create the smart font > language specific reduction that only renders symbol glyphs. The > signs are still obscure, but a little more obvious. > M518x529481x471503x489 M518x533489x515482x490508x496???500x468 464x496 > > And once the characters and symbols are correctly rendered in > graphite, we will be able to see the actual written sign. > > > Good luck, > -Steve