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Hi Bill,<br>
<br>
Glad you like it.<br>
<br>
You're smiley face in the translate program is really interesting.
I'll explain.<br>
<br>
:-) is actually 3 characters in SignPuddle. : and ) are punctuation
characters and SignPuddle replaces those characters with the
SignWriting punctuation. The parenthesis was flipped over due to a
bug. I'll fix it.<br>
<br>
The - however is a totally different matter. In the original
SignPuddle the dash - and the underscore _ where special characters.
In the 1.5 translate section, the dash, underscore and a space are
considered the same. <br>
<br>
In the translate section, if a term can't be found it performs a
search. Since the dash is considered a space, the search returns any
term with a space, dash, or underscore. I'm not sure if this is the
best idea on my part. We'll have to see how it works out.<br>
<br>
An example...<br>
Let's consider 2 signs "he go there" and "he go here". If you typed
"he-go" in the translate box and the dictionary didn't have a sign for
"he go", it would return "he go there" and "he go here". Nice in
theory.<br>
<br>
The ? mark is due to the dreaded "graphic only" signs. These are signs
that are graphics only and do not contain any information about the
symbols and their position. They need to be cleaned up or removed.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wreese01@TAMPABAY.RR.COM">wreese01@TAMPABAY.RR.COM</a> wrote:
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<p>This is Great! Worked smooth after an initial time-out connecting
to the server. I tried the translate feature on "This is great! :-)"
</p>
<p></p>
<p>I added a smiley face just to see how the ASL Signpuddle would
handle it. </p>
<p></p>
<p>I love the ability to choose which sign to use but was baffled
when the "-" in the smiley face gave me a huge number of signs to
choose from. I couldn't see just a dash. Is this a feature? :-)
</p>
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<p>Also, the closing parenthesis looks more like an opening one, but
I'm not that familiar with punctuation.
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<p>I did see a lot of "?" in the sign options and am assuming those
are signs that need cleaning up.
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<p>Altogether, it looks nice and worked fast and intuitively for what
I did.
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<p>Bill<br>
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