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Hi Val,<br>
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The langauge list is ridiculously long. Eventually, this list will be
dictionary specific. So each dictionary can decide what langauges they
want to use.<br>
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When you looked at the signs you added, you should have noticed 2
columns of special commands.<br>
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The first column is for anyone: Customize, Search, and Copy.<br>
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The second column is for editors and sign owners. Since you created
the sign, you own the sign and can use the editing commands: Edit,
Spelling, Labels, and Delete These editing commands work directly on
the existing sign. <br>
<br>
Edit - load the sign into SignMaker.<br>
Spelling - open the sign spelling window so you can modify the spelling.<br>
Labels - open the sign labels window for changing the labels text.<br>
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Since I'm an editor for the dictionary, I was able to modify your
English label for "twelve". <br>
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Val's Label:<br>
12. twelve.<br>
<br>
New Label:<br>
12<br>
twelve<br>
hidden text here<br>
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If you search for 12 and display the results in words, you will notice
that "12" and "twelve" each appear as unique items. The original
English label, "12. twelve." would have appeared as one item. <br>
<br>
Notice that " hidden text here" doesn't appear in the list because it
starts with a space. This is a technique for hiding text, but still
making it searchable. I will probably change this so that it is easier
to hide text from the words list.<br>
<br>
-Steve<br>
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Valerie Sutton wrote:
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cite="midD405C9B8-B833-4E04-930F-7127D88945B5@signwriting.org"
type="cite">SignWriting List
<div>May 27, 2005</div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000ff">Steve Slevinski
wrote:</font></div>
<blockquote type="cite">For now, when labeling a sign, only spoken
langauges are available. Unicode is supported, but I haven't tested it
yet. The Labels field can be used for terms, definitions or anything
else. Each phrase should have it's own line in the labels field. This
allows you to have more than one label per langauge per sign.<br>
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<div>Is the SignPuddle Community dictionary a multi-lingual
dictionary that takes one sign, and then gives the definitions for that
one sign, in multiple spoken languages?</div>
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<div>That is very exciting...</div>
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<div>So how do you differentiate the individual gloss-word that you
use to find a sign, and the long phrase that might be associated with
that sign?</div>
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<div>When I used the pull-down menu, to choose the spoken language I
wanted to use, the pull-down menu included spoken languages that are no
longer spoken...like Middle English (used in 1500s) and Ancient Greek
(smile)...which no one speaks today!</div>
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<div>So can you eliminate the spoken languages that are not used any
longer? The pull-down menu is too long and I could not hold the mouse
down that long because my hand started to hurt...smile...</div>
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<div>But generally this is a very interesting idea, because most
signs are used in different countries, but oftentimes have different
meanings...like the sign for COOK in ASL can mean TRANSLATE A
LANGUAGE.... in Danish Sign Language etc...
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<blockquote type="cite">SignPuddle 1.0 will stay up and active on
SignBank.org for as long as it is used.</blockquote>
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<div>Wonderful! So we can continue to work as we are right now, plus
we will have these new features on SignPuddle.org....that is great!</div>
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<div>many thanks for all this!</div>
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<div>Val ;-)</div>
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