<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 <sutton@signwriting.org></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!
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 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></FO!
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  <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. SignWriting</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="http://www.signwriting.org/">http://www.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"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Read & Write Sign Languages</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>  <DIV
 style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Arial"><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></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">2. SignBank</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="http://www.signbank.org/">http://www.SignBank.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"><SPAN
 class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sign Language Databases</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>  <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Arial"><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></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">3. SignPuddle</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="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle">http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0!
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