[Sw-l] SignWriting and sign4all.de

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 6, 2023

Hello Uta and Steve, and SignWriting List -

Thank you for this excellent summary, Steve, of the new sign4all site from Germany:

https://sign4all.de/

I love this site and look forward to exploring more -

Thank you, Uta and team, for all you are doing -

Val ;-)

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> On Sep 6, 2023, at 3:32 PM, Steve Slevinski <slevin at signpuddle.net> wrote:
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> Hi Uta and SignWriting list,
> 
> I am really impressed by the new site https://sign4all.de
> 
> It contains various technical signs organized into categories.
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> Each sign has a video and the equivalent SignWriting along with other information.
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> Investigating the SignWriting, we can see that they are using the @sutton-signwriting/font-ttf project with the SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) character set.
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> They also have advanced searching.
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> The searching is using the query strings of Formal SignWriting and make use of the @sutton-signwriting/core project.
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> Searching for signs with the index hand shape and rub returns the matching results.
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> Very nice to see.
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> The only issue I found was when translating the page into English, it breaks the searching feature.  Understandable as the site is for Germany.
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> Very impressive site.  I'm glad the our fonts and software packages are useful.  Can't wait to see what's next.
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> Regards,
> -Steve
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