SignPuddle Brackets

[Charles Butler]

Valerie,
I remember putting the expression in the left hand lane whenever it changed in my original transcription.  Currently, it seems to have been merged into the sign writing as centered.
Charles

--- On Thu, 7/23/09, SignWriting <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:

From: SignWriting <signwriting at mac.com>
Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignPuddle Brackets
To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 4:20 PM

SignWriting List
July 23, 2009

There are several reasons why I personally do not use the brackets any longer, although they were symbols that I used daily, in other sections of our writing system, and are still definitely needed in Movement Writing

One reason has to do with fluency in reading SignWriting Literature. When reading a language...like a novel or a newspaper... when you finally reach the end of a sentence, it is disconcerting to see a bracket and have to look back to see what was at the beginning of the sentence...going back on a sentence does not encourage fast reading of literature...we don't look back when reading spoken languages...

Another reason - centering lanes with heads and shoulders...When writing vertically the head circles and shoulder lines create the "center of the lane you are writing in"...the center of the head and shoulder lines helps SignText give us an automatically centered vertical column, and this was hard to program - thank you, Steve!

So the brackets throw the head off center because they are written to the side of the head, and since we do not write with the brackets for daily use anyway, they were not included in the ISWA 2008.

But yes...there is a way to use brackets in SignText nonetheless...You build them with basic lines and then...

The trick is to place the brackets in the Left Lane, while the real sentence is in the Center Lane...then you are not throwing the centering of the heads off kilter inside the sentence itself, and you can really see the brackets clearly sticking out in the Left Lane...

Here is a sample...see attached...notice that we only have the bracket at the beginning and end...there is no way to continue the bracket line down the column in SignText..I think it is easier to read this way anyway...



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