<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 22, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Steve Slevinski wrote:<DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Sorry, about my previous email.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">You math is correct.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Your conversion idea would work just fine.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Very elegant.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">However, I don't like the idea of closing the IMWA.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Because, once the IMWA is entered into Unicode it is not allowed to change.</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Perhaps Tomas very elegant idea could be applied to language-specific symbolsets, such as a revised SSS-US? The current SSS-US on the web is my first-experiement - but once we work out a few minor details, we could get a stable SSS-US, and that could be a test-area for Tomas' idea...</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">meanwhile, the way you have given me the wonderful flexibility to add to the IMWA is perfect for me, Steve, and I hope that will never change so that we can expand and grow and improve...smile</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Val ;-)</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>