What's FSW eaxctly?

[Charles Butler]

On unordered symbols, when I impose a sign-spelling order does that change this ordering so that when I look up a sign I will be able to find it in the mapping in the order in which I imposed the lookup? 

I've been compiling a dictionary for six months now and I want to ensure that I know when I am finished. 
 
Charles Butler
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 From: Stephen E Slevinski Jr <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET>
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Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: What's FSW eaxctly?
 


On 6/20/13 8:27 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:

Steve what do you mean by unordered symbols? Aren't we using the order of the symbols to maintain which ones are drawn first so that we can maintain overlapping?
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Hi Jonathan,

Very true.  Order does matter with overlap and should be respected.  

The symbols are positioned one at a time from first to last.  Early
    symbols can be obscured by later symbols.

I guess using the term unordered isn't exactly correct.  I was
    trying to say don't read too much into the order of the positioned
    symbols.  Matters of overlap are very important, but other than
    that, there is no inherent meaning in the order.

With the sign referenced, there is no overlap, so the following 6
    strings are equivalent.

M534x548S30004482x482S20600512x512S18610492x518
M534x548S30004482x482S18610492x518S20600512x512
M534x548S20600512x512S30004482x482S18610492x518
M534x548S20600512x512S18610492x518S30004482x482
M534x548S18610492x518S20600512x512S30004482x482
M534x548S18610492x518S30004482x482S20600512x512 -Steve 
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