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color=#0000ff size=2>Hello from slovenia,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>i have been folowing your e-mails and i must admitt it is
hard to follow all the information since i have no experience in signwritting.
will be more than interested to buy any litterature so i can start working with
our deaf members here inslovenia. of course we will come to learn in any
workshop there will be organized. and we are interested to buy manual on how to
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Valerie Sutton<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 13, 2006
6:41 PM<BR><B>To:</B> sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<BR><B>Cc:</B> Steve
Slevinski<BR><B>Subject:</B> [sw-l] Report from Vals Desk about SignText
Manual<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>SignWriting List
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<DIV>February 13, 2006</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Report from Val's Desk</B></DIV>
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<DIV>Hello SignWriting List Members!</DIV>
<DIV>What a blessing, to share my work with all of you... What am I doing
right now? I am writing the SignText Editor Manual. As I write pages,
I share some of them with you, but not all the pages, because that would be
overwhelming for all of us... When the Manual is complete, it will have the
following pages:</DIV>
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<DIV><B>SignText Editor Manual</B></DIV>
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<DIV>Cover Page</DIV>
<DIV>Copyright Page</DIV>
<DIV>Table of Contents</DIV>
<DIV>Introduction</DIV>
<DIV>System Requirements</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Lesson 1: Getting Started</B></DIV>
<DIV>Work Online: How to Start</DIV>
<DIV>Work Offline: How to Start</DIV>
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<DIV><B></B></DIV>
<DIV><B>Lesson 2: SignText Design</B></DIV>
<DIV>Screen Design</DIV>
<DIV>Symbol Palette</DIV>
<DIV>SignBox</DIV>
<DIV>Command Buttons</DIV>
<DIV>SignSentence Column</DIV>
<DIV>Text Editing Buttons</DIV>
<DIV>Option Buttons</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Lesson 3: Creating Signs</B></DIV>
<DIV>Symbol Palette Layer 1</DIV>
<DIV>Symbol Palette Layer 2</DIV>
<DIV>Symbol Palette Layer 3</DIV>
<DIV>Command Buttons</DIV>
<DIV>Group List Button</DIV>
<DIV>Previous Button</DIV>
<DIV>Selecting a Symbol</DIV>
<DIV>Select Next Button</DIV>
<DIV>Copy Symbol Button</DIV>
<DIV>Delete Symbol Button</DIV>
<DIV>Clear All Button</DIV>
<DIV>Variation Button</DIV>
<DIV>Mirror Symbol Button</DIV>
<DIV>Fill Symbol Button</DIV>
<DIV>Place Over Button</DIV>
<DIV>Rotate CCW Button</DIV>
<DIV>Rotate CW Button</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Lesson 4: Creating Sentences</B></DIV>
<DIV>Sentence Column</DIV>
<DIV>Lane Buttons</DIV>
<DIV>Adding a Sign to a Sentence</DIV>
<DIV>Text Editing Buttons</DIV>
<DIV>Move an Existing Sign to Another Lane</DIV>
<DIV>Move an Existing Sign Above or Below</DIV>
<DIV>Replace an Existing Sign with a New Sign</DIV>
<DIV>Insert a New Sign Between Existing Signs</DIV>
<DIV>Delete an Existing Sign from the Sentence</DIV>
<DIV>Load an Existing Sign into the SignBox for Editing</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Lesson 5: Document Options</B></DIV>
<DIV>Display Your Sentence</DIV>
<DIV>Email Your Sentence</DIV>
<DIV>Link Your Sentence</DIV>
<DIV>BookMark Your Sentence</DIV>
<DIV>Import Individual Signs into SignPuddle Dictionaries</DIV>
<DIV>SWML SignWriting Markup Language</DIV>
<DIV>Sharing Your Documents With Others</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Lesson 6: Technical Support</B></DIV>
<DIV>Web Help Pages</DIV>
<DIV>PDF Documents</DIV>
<DIV>Email Support</DIV>
<DIV>Voicephone and Videophone</DIV>
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<DIV>Want to download this manual as I write it? It is posted here:</DIV>
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<DIV>SignText Editor Manual</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs3/sw0244-SignText-Instruction.pdf">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs3/sw0244-SignText-Instruction.pdf</A></DIV>
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<DIV>As I make changes, I will re-post the newer version at the same link, so
check back occasionally...I will announce new postings as they happen...</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you once again, to Steve Slevinski for creating SignText, and to
Cherie Wren and Ingvild Roald for testing SignText... I hope others will test it
too!</DIV>
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<DIV>And many thanks to Anny in French-Switzerland for offering to translate the
SignText Manual into French, when it is completed...We are lucky indeed!</DIV>
<DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV>
<DIV>I am going to create my first SignText document this week, and as I do it,
I will be writing the above manual, and sharing some of the pages with you...so
more is coming...</DIV>
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<DIV>Have a splendid day everyone!</DIV>
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<DIV>Val ;-)</DIV>
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<DIV>PS. I know it is winter in many places, but here in San Diego
today, we have hot summer-like weather, as does Brazil I bet
too!</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>