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when. as an editor, I do exactly what you describe above... everything works fine till I get to N° 11... when I do remame My new sign (the one I just entered) and use the name of the sign I just deleted... then on the screen I see the old version of the sign (the one I just deleted...) and there's no way I can get back to the one I changed and renamed as "Hello4"<BR>
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whant am I doing wrong ?<BR>
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<B>De : </B>"Valerie Sutton" <sutton@signwriting.org><BR>
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<B>Date : </B>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:15:16 -0700<BR>
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<B>Objet : </B>Re: [sw-l] LESSONS in SignSpelling<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>SignWriting List<BR>
October 16, 2005<BR>
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Hello Kathleen, Stefan, Ingvild, and Everyone!<BR>
I want to thank all of you for being so open to changing and improving your dictionaries online. It means a lot to see that these Rules are helping, and I feel encouraged...I particularly want to thank Stefan, for encouraging me to start teaching again with the eLessons...and Honza too...thanks for that...sometimes I need that encouragement...so I hope you all will keep informing me of what you need...<BR>
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You are right, that new writers would never think of such rules...it takes skilled writers, who already have some experience, to realize the importance of them, so I think you are moving into a more advanced understanding of the structure of writing movement...that is good, because as SignWriting spreads in Belgium, Kathleen, newcomers could have an easier experience, if they know these rules in advance...as one of the pioneers, you have to go back to fix the spellings...ugh! smile ;-)<BR>
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Actually, so do we in the US...our ASL SignPuddle needs a lot of cleaning too!!<BR>
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How to make changes in SignPuddle? Here is how I personally do it:<BR>
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1. I go to Dictionary Editors, and login as an Editor.<BR>
2. Then, I scroll up to the top of the Dictionary Editor section to search for the sign I want to clean...let us pretend: I search for the sign HELLO.<BR>
3. I find three signs for HELLO...they are HELLO, HELLO_2, HELLO_3.<BR>
4. I push the LOAD button for one of them, and sometimes I have to refresh my screen to see the loaded sign...<BR>
5. I now have the sign in SignMaker, ready to be changed. I make the change. I save the sign to the dictionary still using the SAME name HELLO.<BR>
6. SignPuddle automatically puts a number on the end of it...it becomes HELLO_4.<BR>
7. I then click on the Dictionary Editors icon again and once again search for HELLO.<BR>
8. Let us imagine I want to replace the first HELLO with the new one I just created...<BR>
9. First, I delete the first HELLO.<BR>
10. Then I scroll down and find the new HELLO that is named HELLO_4.<BR>
11. I Rename that new one, to become HELLO without any number. Push the Rename button.<BR>
12. Then press the Refresh button on your browser at least TWO times.<BR>
13. Your new sign is now the first one on the list, and is no longer number 4...<BR>
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Everytime you want to replace a sign, you load it, change it, and re-save it with the same name and then go back and delete the original and rename the new one...<BR>
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Hope that helps!<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Kasterlinden Bilinguaal wrote:<BR>
I'll print out these rules and will tape them next to the computers at my school so people who create new signs will not forget the rules ;) Also at home ;)<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT COLOR="#0000DD">Now the rules are much clearer , when I started creating signs I didn't think about all this. So I'll have to go through all the signs we made in the Flemish signpuddle to correct the signs, and I'll have to make adjustments to the Goldilocks documents.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000DD">Have you any tips for me how to work fast and efficient with signpuddle? Because when I make a mistake usually I go to the puddle and log in as editor... then I load the sign and make the change. I have to save it under a different name or the same name with '_2' added. And then go through the 'delete' and 'change the name again' process.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000DD">Greetings Kathleen<BR>
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