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Another idea is to use the already existing preformatted SignText
column images. Theses images handle the SignWriting symbols, spacing
and lanes. Each SignText document is currently available as several
column PNGs. We could create a column viewer that would shows up to
the first 4 columns of SignWriting text. Pressing forward would
advance through the columns. This should work well for long
documents. Even if a document is 50 columns, only 4 would be displayed
at a time. Live AJAX could handle the columns displayed. I can easily
make a zip file containing a SignText's current image columns. <br>
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The other option is SWML-S. Every SignText document has an SWML-S
document created. These are easy to download if you know how. I can
make it easier in the future. There are some tricks to getting
SignWriting to display properly. I need to write the specs.<br>
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-Steve<br>
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Valerie Sutton wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:FA7D00A8-03FA-4486-BA7F-47FF00610048@mac.com"
type="cite">SignWriting List
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April 29, 2007
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On Apr 29, 2007, at 6:29 AM, GerardM wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hoi,
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Thanks for your reply. I have taken the picture of American Sign
Language uploaded it and added it to the portal of American Sign
Language on OmegaWiki.
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I do agree that programs can be made to do anything, it just needs
doing. I would love to see UNICODE for SignWriting. In the mean time we
can work on getting programs like MediaWiki to accept SignWriting.. I
think that would be awesome.
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Thanks,
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GerardM
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.omegawiki.org/Portal:ase">http://www.omegawiki.org/Portal:ase</a>
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Hello Gerard and Charles!
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Thank you for introducing us to OmegaWiki...I am totally impressed with
the Wiki-style of communicating languages and articles ...as well as
SignWriting in SignPuddles...all using this open way of communicating
on the web - such freedom is to be treasured, since historically ideas
never used to be so open and available to everyone...
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Thank you for including Sign Languages in OmegaWiki...
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Regarding using SignWriting on OmegaWiki right now...here are some
ideas:
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1. Can OmegaWiki accept graphics? I assume the answer is yes...since I
see the sentence that Charles gave you is now posted there!
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Since that is the case, complete sentences and articles could be posted
as graphics files, by taking a screen capture of a document written in
SignPuddle and posting the sentences as graphics. See attached file
below...
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2. Another idea...if you can develop OmegaWiki to except SWML, then we
can produce the documents in SignPuddle, and then export using SWML, to
use on OmegaWiki. (As you know, SWML is a form of XML...the SignWriting
Markup Language...)
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3. A third idea is to give us the ability to post PDF files on
OmegaWiki. Then, the reader would click on a PDF file to read the
SignWriting article. We can create PDF files of our SignWriting
documents, either from SignPuddle or SignBank...
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4. A fourth idea is to create a link inside the OmegaWiki article, that
links the reader to the document stored in the Literature Library in
SignPuddle, so they read the document on SignPuddle in vertical
columns, but still feel like they are really on OmegaWiki...
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In SignBank, another program of ours, we can actually open SignPuddle
as a web page, inside SignBank while we are still in SignBank, so you
never leave SignBank to read documents in SignPuddle...it is an amazing
feature built into SignBank now...
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All these are thoughts for the moment!
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What do you think? Val ;-)
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PS. Here is a screen capture taken from Adam Frost's opening web page
on his site:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.frostvillage.com/asl/index.html">http://www.frostvillage.com/asl/index.html</a>
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<center><img src="cid:part1.03010504.01050002@signpuddle.net"></center>
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