ASL signers...please read this and give your response...

Thu Mar 9 17:29:11 UTC 2006

I wouldn't mind you doing that to the Libras Puddle at all.  It will signal which signs I really need to add back in.  I'm slowly going through my dictionary, and editing is a real mind killer.

  Charles

Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
  SignWriting List  March 8, 2006

    On Mar 8, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Gallant, Philippe wrote:
  thank you
 This project is for my assessment in my area.   Most of the signs that I created is in a quick way to start.  I was going to get back to some of the signs and correct the spelling including face expression in later time.  So, it is a good start to increase sign writing in our directory! SMILE

  Everyone -
  I actually think that it would be a good idea to ask Steve to save all the signs that are only-graphics, and place them in a separate folder and I can get them up on the web in another way, and we can refer to them, a little like referring to an old dictionary, but they will not be a part of the real SignPuddle for ASL on the web. That way, we will only have signs that are created in SignPuddle, in the ASL SignPuddle, which means they will all load properly into SignText and they all will be SWML...

  I think trying to clean up the dictionary right now is intolerable, because out of the 5 versions of a sign, three are graphics and two are new in SWML and just to know which ones to throw out and which ones to keep is exhausting and I do not foresee us ever truly cleaning it properly...

  If we take away all the graphics files, we will currently have a smaller ASL dictionary online, but it will fill up quickly with new signs in its place, because people will miss and need those signs...

  I hope you all agree with me, because I do not see another way to rectify the problem...we have to re-enter them no matter what sooner or later, but at least we will not get confused with a hodgepodge of different computer formats in the same dictionary...

  Is this ok with all of you, if we delete all the graphics-only-files, from the ASL SignPuddle, so it is pure SWML?

  of course we will not do this to the German SignPuddle unless everyone in Germany wants us to do that...smile...

  ASL people...how do you feel having a clean SWML ASL SignPuddle? I think in the long run we will have less frustrations...

  Val ;-)

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