<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>SignWriting List</DIV><DIV>March 2, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Kathleen at Kasterlinden Bilinguaal school in Belgium wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm very curious about SIGNTEXT ;-) Because this was one of the points of discussion at the ESWS (the European SignWriters Symposium).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Writing sentences in SignWriting without using GLOSS... that's what the children need :)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">But now I'm at home looking at the SignText screen and wondering how to get started.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I saw some mails ago the symbols that should be on the page. This is all I get, I only see the 'option' button.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">So Val, please tell me how to write my first sentence: (I want to learn)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Hello Everyone and Kathleen!</DIV><DIV>Happy to help. Keep asking questions!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>HOW TO CREATE A SIGN-SENTENCE IN SIGNTEXT</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1. Connect to the Internet, and open the Firefox web browser.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2. Go to SignText on the web:</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>3. Make your Firefox window as BIG as possible. Stretch the window so it fills your whole computer screen.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">4. To see the Symbol Palette, scroll to the far right. The Symbol Palette should appear, with the SignBox. You may have to scroll down a little too.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">5. See the attached diagram. It shows everything on the SignText Editor screen...(continued next message)...</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1. Symbol Palette</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2. SignBox</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">3. Command Buttons</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">4. Sentence Column</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">5. Text Editing Buttons</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">6. Options for your sentence.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN><IMG src="cid:BA46BF65-B219-4ACC-9E29-FCC78A7E8B24@local"></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>