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Val.,</FONT></DIV>
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did a software CONVERSOR LIBRAS-SIGNWRITING that I am
improving in this moment.But is for download in </FONT></DIV>
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<A
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DOWNLOADS >> APLICATIVOS EDUCACIONAIS E AFINS >> CONVERSOR
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with this software allow to write in portugues and the software translate
for SW in seconds.</FONT></DIV>
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There are another software tha i am waiting for "feed-back" <A
href="http://www.dicionariolibras.com.br">www.dicionariolibras.com.br</A>
>>>DOWNLOADS >>> APLICATIVOS EDUCACIONAIS E AFINS >>
PRATIQUE SIGNWRITING</FONT></DIV>
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this is a very very very good software for practise SW. It´s for
Libras but is very easy to pass for another sign language. If someone wish
i can to configure for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>anaother sign language.</FONT></DIV>
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Visit my site everyday I put a different animation for teaching SW.
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LOOK</FONT></DIV>
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Augusto</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=sutton@signwriting.org href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">Valerie
Sutton</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=barbara.pennacchi@istc.cnr.it
href="mailto:barbara.pennacchi@istc.cnr.it">Pennacchi Barbara</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 02, 2005 11:25 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [sw-l] Computer Applications for
SignWriting</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>SignWriting List<BR>May 2, 2005<BR><BR>Dear SW List:<BR>I am
writing a grant for new software development and I need to summarize all of
our past and current software programs. I know there are some I have
forgotten...Can you think of some other programs? Like recently, from Brazil,
I know there is new software? Please write to tell us, so I can list it
here...and if you find mistakes below, I would love to know...many thanks! Val
;-)<B><BR><BR>----------------------------<BR><BR>Computer Applications for
SignWriting<BR><BR></B><?flushboth><B>SignWriter for Apple //e and //c
(1986-1988): </B>The original SignWriting computer program was written for the
Apple //e and //c computers by Richard Gleaves, one of the developers of Apple
Pascal, Modula 2 computer language. <BR><B>SignWriter DOS for MS-DOS
(1988-today): </B>SignWriter for the Apple //c was ported over to MS-DOS in
1988. SignWriter DOS is still used today around the world on older computers
running Windows 98 or ME. It does not run on Windows NT, 2000 or XP. To solve
this problem, newer versions of SignWriter are under development. SignWriter
is the first Sign-Language-Processing program in history, providing the
ability to create long typed documents in the movements of signs. It also
provides extensive Word-to-Sign dictionary features.<BR><B>SignWriter Java
(1999-Today): </B>SignWriter DOS could not be ported over to the new Java
computer language back in 1996, so it was re-written from the ground up in
Java, but due to financial reasons, SignWriter Java could never be completed.
Even so, it can be downloaded for free on the Internet anyway, and many people
use it, because it can be used on modern operating systems, such as Mac OS X
and all Windows operating systems. It will be replaced by SignWriter Tiger
(see below), which is also a form of Java, in 2005.<BR><B>SignWriter Tiger
(2005 beta): </B>The SignWriter Java program is being re-built again, this
time by German-Swiss Deaf programmer Daniel Noelpp. It is scheduled for beta
testing in May 2005. Daniel is programming in the newest version of Java,
named Tiger. Hence, SignWriter Tiger will fix and improve the old 1999
program, plus add new features.<BR><B>SignWriter Python (2005 beta):
</B>SignWriter is also being re-written in the new Python computer language,
by German programmer Lars Majewski, at the request of SignWriting teacher
Stefan Woehrmann. Already, the old SignWriter DOS files can be viewed in any
operating system, using the new SignWriter Python Document and Dictionary
Viewer.<BR><B>SW-Edit (2000-Today): </B>Created in Brazil by Rafael Piccin
Torchelsen & Professor Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa for the SIGN-Net
Project in 2000, the SW-Edit program is an editing tool for SignWriting. Drag
and drop the symbols into an editing box. This creates signs in
SWML.<BR><B>SWML (1999 to Today): </B>There are four forms of SWML, the
SignWriting Markup Language in the world: <B>SWML-UCPel</B>: the original SWML
Formats, <B>SWML-D</B>: for the Flemish Online Dictionary, <B>SWML-S</B>: for
SignPuddle Online Dictionaries, and <B>SWDB</B>: for UCPel Linguistic
SignWriting Database.<BR><B>SignWriting TrueType Fonts (2000-Today): </B>There
are three families of TrueType fonts with SignWriting symbols: The Sutton
Fonts are Fingerspelling Fonts for 18 different countries, the Woehrmann Fonts
include commonly-used signs in German Sign Language (DGS), and the Parkhurst
Fonts were used to create the textbooks on SignWriting written in Spain, by
Steve and Dianne Parkhurst, including their well-known book SignoEscritura.
The symbols in the Parkhurst Fonts are specific to writing the Spanish Sign
Language dialect of Madrid.<BR><B>The Flemish Sign Language Dictionary on the
web (2004 to Today)</B> can be searched by words or by sign-symbols. Converts
SignWriter DOS dictionary files automatically. Search for over 6,000 Flemish
signs. An important feature is the ability to search for signs by handshape
and/or contact symbols. This creates a two-way bilingual dictionary. Signs are
created with SWML.<B> VSigns</B> <B>(2004 to Today)</B> from Greece. Synthesis
of Virtual Reality Animations from SWML using MPEG-4 Body Animation
Parameters… Find a sign. Read it in SignWriting. Then click on an animated
figure and see the sign move. VSigns generates VRML animation sequences from
SignWriting, based on MPEG-4 Body Animation. The SignWriting of each sign is
provided as input and is initially converted to SWML (SignWriting Markup
Language).<BR><B>Sign WebMessage (2004 to Today)</B> from Brazil. SWM is a
web-tool that enables communication either in Portuguese or in Brazilian Sign
Language (Libras). In the messages, the signs can be written in SignWriting in
Libras and, optionally, their meaning in Portuguese.<BR><B>SignPoster (2005
beta)</B> from Great Britain. Programmer Sandy Fleming is developing a way to
touch type SignWriting symbols, using a limited symbol set for one sign
language.<BR><B>SignWriting in Unicode</B> is a project in discussion, at the
Summer Institute of Linguistics, directed by Albert Bickford in Arizona, with
the guidance of Unicode expert Michael Everson, in Dubin, Ireland. The project
is on hold until funding can be found. It will take several years to create a
Unicode for SignWriting, which will expand SignWriting’s use in other
programs.<BR><B>SignBank 2002-2004 Database Software in FileMaker Pro
5.0-6.0</B> from USA, by Valerie Sutton and Todd Duell. This groundbreaking
multi-lingual database was designed to publish large SignWriting dictionaries
sorted by Sign-Symbol-Sequence (the SSS), and provides the full SymbolBank,
with all symbols in the entire SignWriting system. The International Movement
Writing Alphabet (the IMWA) is every symbol for writing body movement and can
be searched and studied through SignBank 2004. SignBank 2004 also provides
Deaf children with illustrated dictionaries, and researchers a place to store
their video clips and foreign signs. Sophisticated linguistic searches make it
possible to find all the signs with the same handshape, or all the signs with
the same combination of symbols, or all the signs with the exact
SignSpelling…and several other search routines. New search routines can be
created on the fly. The SignSpelling database is the first in history to give
editors the chance to establish the sorting routines for their Sign-to-Word
multi-lingual dictionaries. There are 20 print formats, and a special
linguistic area for adding definitions written in Sign Language, and a place
to add animated SignWriting for children.<BR><?/flushboth><B>SignPuddle
2004-2005: </B>Stephen Slevinski has brought SignWriting to the web with a
series of web-based programs designed for the everyday use. These programs
include <B>SignMail,</B> for sending email in SignWriting,
<B>SignTranslate</B>, for translating spoken language glosses to signs, and
<B>SignMaker</B>, a way to create new SignWriting signs on the web by dragging
and dropping symbols into a SignBox, and then saving them to the online
SignPuddle dictionary. One can use the new signs immediately in email or in
SignWriting documents, created by another program, <B>SignText.
</B>Dictionaries can be edited by editors who are invited to review dictionary
entries. And Slevinski is currently working on another related program called
<B>SignType</B>, which will allow SignMaker to work with keyboard strokes as
well as with a mouse.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>