<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>May 31, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Barbara Pennacchi in Italy wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Andale Mono" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Andale Mono">The box not only makes it clear that it is merely a supplementary information ABOUT the dialogue's spatial setting, but can be used in both horizontal and vertical writing.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR></DIV><DIV>I am glad you feel this is useful, Barbara...I do too....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>By the way, you do not have to be a dancer, to read and write dance!! smile...My dancing days are over too ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But let me explain a little...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignWriter DOS, Java, Tiger, Python...they are all using standardized symbolsets... We call those the SSS or Sign-Symbol-Sequence. The SSS-1995 was the Sign-Symbol-Sequence used in SignWriter DOS, and the symbolset was not that large...and it was specifically for SignWriting. And the Java program uses the SSS-1999. Tiger is using both and Python is using 1995 I believe. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But there is a new development now...The International Movement Writing Alphabet (IMWA) (Sutton Movement Writing) is a huge writing system that also writes dance, not just signs. So SignWriting and DanceWriting are using the same symbols, but DanceWriting also has added symbols that until now, were not used much in SignWriting. We never had a way to create a DanceWriting document by computer, until SignPuddle, which is not using the SSS-1995, or 1999...but instead is using the entire IMWA...which means that now the DanceWriting symbols are available on computer...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And ironically this means that SignWriting is further enhanced by this, because now we can grab some symbols for DanceWriting, for use with SignWriting, if need be...and the Room Location symbols are an example of this....Here is how to access them if you are using SignPuddle. There are quite a lot of them, and I will be happy to explain them...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:0D564C2E-28BF-41DA-8655-8481D791F2CF@local"></SPAN></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>