<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I believe that Charles was using computer talk when he said the two languages, but you are right that it is better to refer to SignWriting and HamNoSys as writing systems. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Adam<br><br>On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:37 PM, "Mark A. Mandel" <<a href="mailto:mamandel@LDC.UPENN.EDU">mamandel@LDC.UPENN.EDU</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>That's good information. Just a terminological point: these are writing systems, not languages.</div><div><br></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">--<br>Mark A. Mandel<br>Linguistic Data Consortium<br>University of Pennsylvania<br><br><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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<br><div><div>On 12.06.15, at 12:54 PM, Cherie Wren wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span>Your
best bet would be to check with Rachel Channon as she has been working
on a multi-conversion program between SignWriting, HamNoSys and a third
system which she presented at TISLR in Indiana. She has the largest
corpus available in both languages, to the best of my knowledge. </span><div><span><br></span></div><div>HamNoSys does not have as many parameters as SW so there may be some things missing. </div><div> </div>Charles Butler</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>