<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>January 31, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>BRAVO! Wow...so fast Steve...How do you do it?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I want everyone to know that this new SignText is a really fun program and little different than before. I would like to teach people how to use it. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here is my suggestion...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let me start teaching SignText, and by the time I am done, maybe Anny will have Mac OS X in her computer! And we can drag and drop signs from SignText into SignBank...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This will be fun!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignText is a way to write sentences, email and documents without using any English gloss or any words from any spoken languages at all...It works with SignMaker, but instead of saving signs in a dictionary, you are saving whole sentences into a bookmark directory on your browser...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I will start tomorrow morning, Wednesday, to teach the new SignText...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Many thanks Steve, from the bottom of my heart - This is a blessing...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>---------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Steve Slevinski wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> Hi List,<BR> <BR> A while back I was talking with Val. She mentioned there was a school that liked to use SignText but was frustrated by its limitations. Like Val, I enjoy working on stuff that gets used. So I made some major improvements to SignText including basic editing, saving, loading, email, and display.<BR> <BR> Val says she will update the instructions, but for the daring...<BR> <BR> <B>Basic Editing with the mini-cons</B><BR> Each sign in the sign sentence has 9 special icons that help with editing<BR> <SPAN><DIV><moz-screenshot.jpg></DIV></SPAN><BR> <BR> <SPAN><DIV><moz-screenshot-1.jpg></DIV></SPAN> - Load this sign into the SignBox<BR> <SPAN><DIV><moz-screenshot-2.jpg></DIV></SPAN> - Delete this sign from sentence<BR> <SPAN><DIV><moz-screenshot-4.jpg></DIV></SPAN> - Replace this sign in the sentence with the sign in SignBox<BR> <SPAN><DIV><moz-screenshot-5.jpg></DIV></SPAN> - Insert the sign in the SignBox above this sign<BR> <SPAN><DIV><moz-screenshot-6.jpg></DIV></SPAN> - Insert the sign in the SignBox below this sign<BR> <SPAN><DIV><moz-screenshot-3.jpg></DIV></SPAN> - Change the lane of this sign<BR> <SPAN><DIV><moz-screenshot-8.jpg></DIV></SPAN> - Move this sign up or down in the sentence<BR> <BR> <B>Improved Options<BR> </B>When you have completed the document, you now have several options.<BR> <BR> Display - Opens a new page where only the document is visible.<BR> Email - Opens a page on SignBank.org where you can send an email in SignWriting<BR> Bookmark - Opens a page you can bookmark where you can reload the document into SignText. This allows you to save your work and edit it later.<BR> Import - Opens a page on SignBank.org where you can choose a language so you can import into a SignPuddle dictionary<BR> SWML - View the document in SignWriting markup language.<BR> <BR> You can use SignText online or you can download SignText to use offline. The offline version is the exact same, except Email and Import will not work until you connect to the internet.<BR> <BR> SignText Online:<BR> <A class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext</A><BR> <BR> SignText download:<BR> <A class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext.zip">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext.zip</A><BR> <BR> Enjoy,<BR> -Steve<BR> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>