<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Charles and Everyone -<DIV>Although a spell checker would be great in the future, to do that, we would have to have a dictionary that doesn't change...right now the Community SignPuddles are places for people to experiment with how to write, so we have many versions of the same sign because it is a practice place...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>To get a spell checker to work, it would have to access a dictionary that is stable and not changing...it implies that there are standardized spellings...This new SignText is more like the old typewriters that were not computers...There were no spell checkers on a basic typewriter before...but people could still compose a nice document...so I guess we have to walk before we can run!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>All this will come in time....we just need to give it more than a week - ha!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And SignText is not just for email...it is more for creating sentences as diagrams for Word documents etc...so it is a useful tool that will evolve and be used in many different ways...I find it quite fast to drag and drop symbols and create signs with the proper facial expressions...When we access a dictionary we have a problem, because the dictionary cannot have the facial expressions that are proper for a sign in a certain position in the sentence...so dictionaries accessed for spell checkers in English may be a little simpler, but ASL has fluctuating facial expressions...</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><DIV><DIV>On Feb 6, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Charles Butler wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I guess I'm looking for a "spell checker" feature so that when I'm typing directly, I dont' have to reinvent the wheel when I'm not sure how to spell something.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Charles<BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <<A href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hello Charles! <DIV>Exactly! Cherie and Ingvild wrote email in sentences with Lanes...without any need for a word gloss...This changes the experience of writing email in SignWriting, because now we are getting to real Sign Language grammar issues...writing directly in the movements of signed languages, with no spoken language involved...and that is really great...The other email program in SignPuddle is still there to use, but it had been criticized by those who do not want to use glosses to write signed languages, so now we have both for all kinds of people!</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Actually Steve did develop a way to access the SignPuddle dictionary, while composing in SignText, but since SignText just was released in this new version, less than a week ago, I have not had the chance to write the manual yet...</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Steve - Can you teach everyone how to use SignPuddle to get some signs into a SignText sentence?...</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Frankly, I hope that most people will compose each sign directly in SignText without thinking in glosses...that is the whole point of SignText...</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>And, SignPuddle already has a way to search for signs with different handshapes...but not related to email. When we type email in English we do not search for words in a dictionary...we type directly, and that is what SignText gives us...so there are different programs for different purposes...</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Amazing isn't it?...smile...</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Want to try it? Go to:</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>SignText</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext/signtext.html">http://signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext/signtext.html</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Val ;-)</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>PS. What is the difference between SignPuddle, SignBank, and SignText?</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Arial"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">SignPuddle...Create signs online, add them to a dictionary, search the dictionary, send email using glosses</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Arial"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">SignText...Create Sign-Sentences and Sign-Documents online or offline, send email, no glosses involved!</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">SignBank...Create, Print, Search and Publish Multi-Lingual Sign Language Databases...SignBank can be used to print thick dictionaries....like a websters dictionary...easily and automatically, once the database is filled with signs...</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Both SignText and SignWriter are ways to create documents...</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; apple-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"><SPAN class="Apple-style!" -span="" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 14px Arial; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; apple-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Val ;-)</SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Arial"><BR style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Valerie Sutton</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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: 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-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tech support by voice or video...</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Make an appointment by email ;-)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Arial"><BR style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1. 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