I would tend to keep the shoulder line in for quick reading as a grasp anywhere could be on the stomach, not just the breast. <br><br>I am so pleased, generally, with SignPuddle 1.5. The only difficulty I have now as that I can't figure out how to clip a single sign and have it actually show up in an email. It did until this morning, now it doesn't.<br><br>Charles<br><br><br><b><i>Valerie Sutton <signwriting@MAC.COM></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> SignWriting List<br>April 7, 2007<br><br>Charles Butler wrote:<br>> 3) If so, what would be the SSS for the shoulder line. The <br>> location of cupping the breast for this sign (which is one LIBRAS <br>> sign for mother, the GESTUNO sign for MOTHER, and several others is <br>> not easily understood without a body location, one could be <br>> grasping anything. Any suggestions:<br>>
Charles<br><br><br>Hello Charles and Everyone!<br>I am in the process of writing the SignSpelling Guidelines 2007 <br>booklet, to explain this in detail.<br><br>In the past, the 2004 booklet was based on only sorting 250 signs. <br>That was not enough for us to really study looking up signs quickly <br>with those SignSpelling guidelines.<br><br>But then recently, I sorted 1844 signs and found that the 2004 <br>SignSpelling Guidelines were not correct, at least as far as I can <br>see anyway...<br><br>So based on this new experience, I am looking up by the handshape <br>first. That means that the first symbol that you need in the <br>SignSpelling column, is the handshape, not the shoulders. If you put <br>the shoulders first, that would mean you would look that sign up by <br>the shoulder line first...<br><br>It goes:<br><br>1. Handshapes<br>2. Contact-Movement-Dynamics-Timing<br>3. Location<br><br>Following this idea, your sign for MAMAE, would have this
<br>SignSpelling Sequence (see attached). I added this as a second <br>version to your LIBRAS dictionary...go to MAMAE and then scroll down <br>to find my new addition.<br><br>The little manniken needs a hollow dot, not a dark dot. The dark dot <br>is the back of the person, the hollow dot is the front of the <br>person...also notice how I deleted the manniken from the actual <br>writing of the sign after I established the SignSpelling...the <br>manniken gives the location for lookups in the dictionary, without <br>changing the writing of the sign...<br><br>I am still not one hundred percent sure we need the shoulders in the <br>SignSpelling column at all...the Shoulder Line is used when writing <br>the sign, to show the location visually, but when sorting by <br>Location, it may be that the little manniken is enough information <br>for exact location sorting...these are the kinds of issues that we <br>need to test, but it needs to be tested on a lot of signs
in a <br>dictionary, not just a small amount...to see how easy it is to find a <br>sign in the dictionary...<br><br>I know you did a lot of work on this yourself Charles, by hand...and <br>that was very impressive because you did it without computers...the <br>only difference here is we are trying to get computers to do the <br>sorting for us. We can try different sequences to see what end result <br>works for the majority of people...that could be a life-long research <br>project, that is for sure...<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br><br><br><br></blockquote><br>