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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Dear Valerie and SW list,</FONT></DIV>
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Thank you for your words VAL. I am translating and
finishing the software. Give-me a couple of days.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=4> May you
VAL or anybody of the list help to indicate what is the exactly
sign of each movement of the eyes in the attach animation</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=4> Pedro
AUGUSTO marques</FONT></DIV>
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href="mailto:augusto@dicionariolibras.com.br"><FONT
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</FONT><A href="http://www.dicionariolibras.com.br"><FONT
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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
href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:55
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [sw-l] Computer Applications
for SignWriting</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>SignWriting List<BR>May 4, 2005<BR><BR>Dear SW List, and
Augusto!<BR>Everyday there seems to be new software or some new development
regarding SignWriting in computers. And Augusto's new software is an example
of the creativity that is happening all over the world...I had so much fun
looking at your site, Augusto...thank you for this!!<BR><BR>Everyone...if you
go to Augusto's link below...and then scroll down his web page...as you go
down, you will find animation of SignWriting facial expressions, animation of
shoulder and hip movement symbols...and animation of a person doing a sign
that contains a Brush symbol, doing a Rub symbol...in other words, the
animated figure shows what the movement symbol means...it is really quite
exciting and I can see this will be valuable...Congrats, Augusto!<BR><BR>Your
program and also Sandy's SignPoster are two programs that I look forward to
studying more soon...<BR><BR>Meanwhile, Augusto, what is the name of your
program? I can see you are calling it LIBRAS-SIGNWRITING, but actually your
software is not just for LIBRAS...it is for any signed language...so does it
have a name that is more general?....like SignWritingTutor, or SignConverter,
or SignWritngAnimator or whatever...it needs a generic name for listing
it...and the name has to be unique and not used by another
program...<BR><BR>So give me the official names for your programs...Many
thanks!<BR><BR>Val ;-)<BR><BR>----------------------------<BR><BR>Augusto from
Brazil wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller>I did a software
CONVERSOR LIBRAS-SIGNWRITING that I am improving in
this moment.But is for download
in <?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller><?/x-tad-smaller><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEED><?x-tad-smaller>www.dicionariolibras.com.br<?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?x-tad-smaller> >>
DOWNLOADS >> APLICATIVOS EDUCACIONAIS E AFINS >> CONVERSOR
LIBRAS-SIGNWRITING <?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller>with this software allow
to write in portugues and the software translate for SW in seconds.<?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller>There are another software tha
i am waiting for "feed-back" <?/x-tad-smaller><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEED><?x-tad-smaller>www.dicionariolibras.com.br<?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?x-tad-smaller>
>>>DOWNLOADS >>> APLICATIVOS EDUCACIONAIS E AFINS >>
PRATIQUE SIGNWRITING<?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller> 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<?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller>anaother sign language.<?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller>Visit my site everyday I put a
different animation for teaching SW.<?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller>LOOK<?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller>Augusto<?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller><?/x-tad-smaller><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEED><?x-tad-smaller>augusto@dicionariolibras.com.br<?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Sutton<?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?x-tad-smaller> <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><B><?x-tad-smaller>To:<?/x-tad-smaller></B><?x-tad-smaller>
<?/x-tad-smaller><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEED><?x-tad-smaller>SIGNWRITING
List<?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?x-tad-smaller> <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><B><?x-tad-smaller>Cc:<?/x-tad-smaller></B><?x-tad-smaller>
<?/x-tad-smaller><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEED><?x-tad-smaller>Pennacchi
Barbara<?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?x-tad-smaller> <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><B><?x-tad-smaller>Sent:<?/x-tad-smaller></B><?x-tad-smaller>
Monday, May 02, 2005 11:25
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[sw-l] Computer Applications for
SignWriting<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><BR>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
;-)<BR><BR><B>----------------------------</B><BR><BR><B>Computer
Applications for SignWriting</B><BR><BR><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><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
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