<DIV>Hi Sandy,</DIV>
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<DIV>Unfortunately, your doodle matches one of the handshapes in the SW system that actually has the thumb sticking straight out toward the speaker. I'd love to see some "doodle fonts" myself, but that has to come in time.</DIV>
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<DIV>Charles</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Sandy Fleming <sandy@FLEIMIN.DEMON.CO.UK></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi Charles,<BR><BR>In her manual about block printing, Val suggests just using one or two<BR>strokes for a cross-hatch fill, though for hands oriented sideways you have<BR>to split the hand down the middle before filling, so that's two strokes at<BR>least, and maybe this kind of fill isn't very noticeable either.<BR><BR>In the same document, however, she suggests writing endless rows of symbols<BR>until you're good at it - boring!<BR><BR>But these are two birds that can be killed with one stone! Yes, write<BR>endless rows, but as you're doing so, experiment with stylistic variations.<BR><BR>My attached gif shows a solution that might work well for filling in a<BR>single stroke. Instead of using shading, imagine you have a ring shape<BR>tatooed on the back of your hand. Simply draw this ring instead of the<BR>fill - all kinds of orientations at a single stroke!<BR><BR>Of cours!
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defies convention, but I don't see it as stepping outside of<BR>the SW system in any way. It's more like inventing a new fun font :)<BR><BR>Disclaimer: I only just thought of this - I haven't actually tried it with<BR>all kinds of handshapes!<BR><BR>Personally, I'm a bit of a doodler and I like doing a quick scribbled fill,<BR>but different styles may suit different people better, and maybe we should<BR>get used to the idea of "designer fonts" in SW!<BR><BR>Sandy<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<BR>[mailto:owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Charles Butler<BR>Sent: 04 October 2004 18:01<BR>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<BR>Subject: [sw-l] Handwriting and idiosyncratic SW<BR><BR><BR>Hi Sandy, Val, and lots of other people.<BR><BR>I would agree that Sandy is looking at how to make SW more flexible as a<BR>handwriting system. It's all well and good if you are typing, but if you<BR>are writing, sometimes making multi!
ple dots,
or crosshatchings, or lots of<BR>other things which work marvelously if you are just pointing and clicking<BR>get VERY tedious to make clear in a SW handwriting system that still<BR>maintains the integrity of the SW system.<BR><BR>We need to start handwriting more and scanning that into our discussions so<BR>we get an idea of what "local conventions" are doing. Imagine what<BR>happened, thousands of years ago, when the A, which had been written with<BR>the points up (it was a picture of a cow), flipped over. We haven't seen it<BR>that way since the Phoenicians, but who knows what to expect.<BR><BR><BR>> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/gif name=style.gif<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>