Hello all:<br>
this is what I do for SignWriting notebook-paper. I've taken a sheet of
ruled notebook paper, and drawn over every 3rd line in black ink with a
felt-tip pen, so that I end up with a sheet of paper that has nice dark
lines that are 1 inch apart (= ca. 2 cm.). Turning my notepad sideways,
as do people I know who write Japanese vertically, I then slide this
sheet under the one I'm currently writing on, and voila! A sheet full
of guidelines for vertical columns.<br>
I am thinking of getting some notepads made up that have the 1-inch
columns already on the pages -- would anybody else be interested?<br>
Also, for $2.50 US, I found these notebooks online, which are designed
for vertical writing ... and they do come in different sizes, some with
bigger blocks, some with smaller.Like US "elementary" versus
"college-ruled" notebooks.<br>
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Happy writing,<br>
Kim from Boston<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ingvild Roald</b> <<a href="mailto:iroald@hotmail.com">iroald@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Personally, I used a block of ruled paper - 0.5 cm squares - for my tryouts.<br>I used 2 of the squares for the with of the hand symbol, and wrote about a<br>full page of each symbol until I felt comfortable with the strokes and the
<br>look. - Look forward to Val's comment of the way my symbols look, she may<br>not be entirely pleased, maybe .... Well, I am back at being a student, and<br>then the teacher is the boss ...<br><br>As for the two open lines fot the flat hand in bird's perspective - maybe it
<br>would feel better if we kept the bottom, and just let the top off?<br><br>And as for the arrows - mostly, I would say they do not matter, but if you<br>let the arrowstem go all the way up to the tip for the right hand, and not
<br>for the left, you do get a distiction<br><br>Ingvild<br><br><br><br><br>>From: "Stefan Wφhrmann"<<a href="mailto:stefanwoehrmann@GEBAERDENSCHRIFT.DE">stefanwoehrmann@GEBAERDENSCHRIFT.DE</a>><br>>Reply-To:
<a href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>>To: <a href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>>Subject: [sw-l] Handwriting course Stefans homework
<br>>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:09:32 +0100<br>><br>>Hi Valerie sw-listmembers participants of the SW Handwriting course <br>><br>><br>><br>>attached you find page 8 - homework of this Handwriting course
<br>><br>><br>><br>>Hi Valerie here are my comments while I tried to follow your advice :<br>><br>><br>><br>>1) I asked myself thinking of my students and of me when I had been<br>>a 6 year old boy does it make sense to write carefully and slowly in the
<br>>beginning instead of just focus on speed?<br>><br>>At my age speed is not my first interest in Handwriting but rather the<br>>option to be able to take notes in a reasonable time if no computer is<br>
>asside or if I wish to make a first draft of video-transcription <br>><br>>So I guess I will retry to write everything with more accuracy even as if<br>>writing a calligraphic piece of art For my first grade students I even
<br>>developed worksheets that allowed them just to write upon given lines and<br>>letters in order to practise the keystroke again and again in a guided<br>>manner ... I think of same materials for SW Handwriting.
<br>><br>>2) In order to understand the Handwriting procedure I had to turn<br>>several time to your posted lessons showing lifelike drawings of<br>>handshapes SW printing and SW Handwriting aside. Thanks for that it is
<br>>a<br>>great support<br>><br>>3) Within this context I bet that a rather stupid repetition of<br>>every handshape in all 96 variations would be a rather helpful task to<br>>become familiar with how to write ... I would prefer to have access to a
<br>>table of clearly written handsymbols of the six basic hand shapes we used<br>>to<br>>talk about <br>><br>>4) Flat hand with no lines (parallel to the floor seems not that easy<br>>to read for me hm somehow I feel uncomfortable with this solution how
<br>>about others??<br>><br>>5) What about arrow writing. I am looking forward to learn about<br>>your ideas how to distinguish between right hand/ lefthand both hands<br>>arrows (Within this excercise I watched myself to neglect the fill for the
<br>>right hand movement and even wrote the arrowhead which is used in<br>>printing<br>>for "hands as unit" for right hand movement Especially circle movements<br>>( like in sign are of particular interest to me.)
<br>><br>>6) When I started to create TT-Fonts for publishing I tried to<br>>understand your idea bind "symbol construction" At that time I measured<br>>every sign and compared the lenghts of the lines and the proportions of
<br>>different symbols. In the end I understood several principles that are<br>>really interesting regarding lenght and width of the differen symbols. Who<br>>knows how much time you spend on this question or whether you felt guided
<br>>by<br>>DOS pixel graphic possibilities? Anyway while trying to do my<br>>homework<br>>I understood that there are different proportions compared to printing- for<br>>example often I write the circle for the head too small ... so I guess it
<br>>will take time to develop a kind of feeling for proportions in handwriting?<br>><br>>7) It turned out that copying printing to Handwriting repeatedly has<br>>been a neccessary until I felt able to do the Handwriting without
<br>>additional<br>>support. I guess that Deaf people fluent in their SignLanguage will<br>>have<br>>not as much trouble to imagine a visual representation of all the different<br>>possibilities of handshape and handorientation. So back to practice of
<br>>writing again and again 96 hand tables - ;-)<br>><br>>8) Can you add numbers to the pages or can you teach me how to add<br>>numbers to a downloaded PDF ?<br>><br>>9) What do you recommend for scanning? The scanner offers different
<br>>options 100 dpi enough for our purposes? Are you interested in the<br>>original page or just in what we wrote on paper. The last option would<br>>allow<br>>us to scan a smaller area less pixel minor bites!
<br>><br>>10) Just imaging sitting in your house doing this Handwriting it<br>>would<br>>be helpful to get your feedback while you are going around and looking at<br>>my<br>>procedure smaller or big enough, too slow or quick enough, and to learn
<br>>from others about their ideas, problems and questions. So thank you soooo<br>>much for your time and attention to do all this email-feedback and your<br>>website design which is a standard of its own - congrats -
<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>>I got photos from some participants and as I said before it is fun to put<br>>faces to the names and lateron sign names. So everybody of this Handwriting<br>>course is invited who is interested to get his own Handwriting and Printing
<br>>signname as a unique TT Font to send a photo to me. <br>><br>><br>><br>>I am looking forward to study the comments and feedback and to learn more<br>>about Handwriting next week.<br>><br>><br>
><br>>Have a super weekend<br>><br>><br>><br>>Stefan ;-)<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br><br>><< homework1January13.png >><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>