<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>February 6, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Honza from the Czech Republic wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">At one university here, we are making new sign-dictionary on CD with I'll call it SignWriting support.<BR>So now we are making new CD dictionary (mostly with IT, maths, typography etc. terms) and we'll need some software for searching signs like on the <A href="http://signbank.org">signbank.org</A> is available.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hello Honza and Everyone!</DIV><DIV>Thank you for this message...The reason I am not getting to SignText instruction, is that researchers have contacted me privately about using SignBank combined with SignPuddle and SignText, and there have been many emails answering their technical questions...The linguistic research community is just starting to realize the enormous tools available to them!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are several ways for your project to move forward, with or without funding...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1. Free</DIV><DIV>Use your current Czech SignPuddle, or SignText, to create your signs. Then place those signs into whatever software you are using to create your CDs.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you are going to print your dictionaries in a book, then I would strongly suggest using SignBank. SignBank is a sophisticated database program. Once your signs are in SignBank, you can print your dictionaries, because it is set up with some really beautiful print layouts that make it possible to print multi-lingual dictionaries, with illustrations, pictures...so many beautiful print formats! If you build a Czech SignBank, it could be shared by all your schools...It is a great way to print vocabulary lists...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We do not have a Czech version of SignBank at this time, so I would suggest downloading any country SignBank on the web, and just use it...We can change it to around 10 spoken languages, but unfortunately Czech is not one of them...But SignBank works beautifully for ANY Sign Language...it is only the spoken languages I am talking about...smile...so if people understand English at your university, then download the US version setup for English...smile...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Download SignBank</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.SignBank.org/downloads">http://www.SignBank.org/downloads</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></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>2. With Funding, For A Group Project</DIV><DIV>I would suggest getting a Private SignPuddle for your group, that will give you new features, including the possibility of video-upload and other linguistic search features...To read about Private SignPuddles, go to:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignPuddle Web Services</DIV><DIV><A href="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/services.html">http://signbank.org/signpuddle/services.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Your project would be private and you will be able to add signs without the concern of others coming in and using the same SignPuddle...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Once your signs are entered into SignPuddle, you can place them in a variety of programs, to create your CDs...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Val ;-)</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Valerie Sutton</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><A href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Tech support by voice or video...</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Make an appointment by email ;-)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">1. SignWriting</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org">http://www.SignWriting.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Read & Write Sign Languages</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">2. SignBank</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><A href="http://www.SignBank.org">http://www.SignBank.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Sign Language Databases</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">3. SignPuddle</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><A href="http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle">http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Create & Share Signs Online & Offline</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">4. MovementWriting</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><A href="http://www.MovementWriting.org">http://www.MovementWriting.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Read & Write All Body Movement</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><BR style="; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">SignWriting Literacy Project</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">The DAC, Deaf Action Committee</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Center For Sutton Movement Writing</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">an educational nonprofit organization</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038, USA</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>