<DIV>I just have old SW DOS 4.0 on my machine. Yes, it's that ancient a program. I pushed it from Dos into paint into an illustration. It may be 1980s but I still have that program and have lots of classroom notes in it.</DIV>
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<DIV>From the example you posted, I'm not sure where the "rule" goes. Does the up and back arrow go to the side rather than above? I don't want to fill the ASL bank on SignBank with my notes so I did it at home on my ancient computer. Perhaps we could have a SignBank dictionary file for "examples" so that I don't clutter up an "official" dictionary. I can assemble a sign quickly at work but at home the SignBank takes more than one minute for each sign symbol to load unless I simply use SW DOS.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <sutton@signwriting.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">SignWriting List<BR>December 6, 2004<BR><BR>I cannot read these symbols and I am curious where you got the symbols, <BR>Charles? The shoulder lines look different in SignMaker...do you know <BR>how to access the shoulder lines in SignMaker?...and what are the <BR>rectangles? Did you mean flat hands, which used to be a rectangle in <BR>the 1980's....smile...Val ;-)<BR><BR><BR><BR>> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/gif name=symbols.gif; x-mac-type=47494666; x-unix-mode=0644; x-mac-creator=3842494D<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Dec 6, 2004, at 4:10 PM, Charles Butler wrote:<BR><BR>> Following "sign spelling rules" the hand goes up and then back which <BR>> means the arrow is "above" the hand on the page. Because the <BR>> orientation of the hand changes, I would think you'd show both <BR>> orientations and a shoulder line to show the end position. How's this <BR>>
everyone?<BR>> <BR>> <BR>><BR>><BR>> Stuart Thiessen <SW@PASSITONSERVICES.ORG>wrote:<BR>> I am a little confused about the symbol for a backwards arc (<BR>><BR>><BR>> > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/png name=image.png; x-unix-mode=0666<BR>> ). For other arrows, I can understand how to place a handshape before<BR>> and after the movement to show starting and ending orientations or<BR>> handshapes. How do I do this with this arrow? Starting and ending<BR>> positions technically are in the same position.<BR>><BR>> How do others handle this? My example situation is the sign for BEFORE<BR>> in ASL that I am transcribing from a video. It starts in neutral space<BR>> with the left hand mostly face down and the back of the right hand<BR>> contacting the back of the left hand and then moving in a backward arc<BR>> over the shoulder and a little past the shoulder. I am trying to <BR>> figure<BR>> out how to show !
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hand beginning in a palm face-up orientation<BR>> then ending in a palm facing ! the body orientation. Plus there is the<BR>> question of how to show that it leaves neutral space to go over the<BR>> shoulder.<BR>><BR>> Thanks,<BR>><BR>> Stuart<BR>> <PREVIOUS.JPG></BLOCKQUOTE>