<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>On Jun 22, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Tomas Klapka wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">I like this discussion, it is very interesting.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Monaco; min-height: 19px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">If I say "IMWA finished" I don't mean the IMWA finished finished :)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">I think it could be mapped onto Unicode before it is "finished" because the</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">term "finished" is very relative.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">If I understand it well, IMWA is meaned to be an alphabet for all possible</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">movements. It will take ages to finish it.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">I agree that we can take some "stable" part of the IMWA and it can be mapped</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">onto it.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">There can be white spaces, which can be mapped later it is called "reserved".</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Monaco; min-height: 19px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Well, I think it is possible to map the IMWA onto Unicode soon and it could be</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">the part of IMWA which is stable and it is supposed to be never changed.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>---------------------<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tomas - Thanks for this interesting discussion and I agree with you, about the above...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Essentially, inside the IMWA exists two very clear subsets...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>International SignWriting Alphabet</DIV><DIV>and the</DIV><DIV>International DanceWriting Alphabet</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are also some SportsWriting that includes some weird props, like the Balance Beam is written in gymnastics etc...but that could go under the DanceWriting category...the DanceWriting category is really "everything else that SignWriting does not use regarding FullBody writing"...so in a way it represents the generic movement writing section, versus the SignWriting...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>FullBody is a term in Sutton Movement Writing referring to writing the full stick figure, with legs and feet etc...and all the symbols that are used to show the FullBody turning, jumping, lying on the floor, etc...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>