SignPuddle Brackets

[Ingvild Roald]

Hi,

this is an interesting discussion. And I like this solution. It reminds me of the way question marks and exclamation marks are written in Spanish - at the beginng and the end of the sentence, not like in English and Norwegian and lots of other languages, at the end only.

Ingvild 




> From: signwriting at mac.com
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignPuddle Brackets
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:20:10 -0700
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> 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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