<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>May 13, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>On May 12, 2008, at 2:31 PM, MARIA AZZOPARDI wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">5. Is there a way to 'save-as-you-go' in SignText. I'm inputting text<br>verse by verse. I save the work when I come to the end of the verse. Is it<br>possible to save the work half-way through and to keep working?</span></blockquote><br><br></div><div>Hello Maria!</div><div>Yes, we can save as we go...and add to the saved document later. Just push the SAVE button in the Editor. Later you can re-open that document to add more if you want...</div><div><br></div><div>However, at present, in SignPuddle 1.5, it is best not to make a document too long, for other technical reasons...</div><div><br></div><div>This is how we did the 21 chapters of the Gospel According to John in ASL:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Each verse of each chapter was created as a separate document, and added to the private ASL Bible Puddle. We named them like this:</div><div><br></div><div>John15v06</div><div>John15v07</div><div>John15v08</div><div>John15v09</div><div>John15v10</div><div><br></div><div>and so forth...that way you can search and find all the documents in John15 etc...</div><div><br></div><div>2. Then each verse starts with the signs: VERSE ___.</div><div><br></div><div>We write the sign for VERSE and the number of the verse with a period following at the beginning, all in ASL, and then start writing the actual verse after that...This helps the reader know what verse they are reading......see attached...it says VERSE 2. in ASL...</div><div><br></div><div><div><img height="167" width="127" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DDBEF116-8983-4B0F-A881-8C3A8281ACBB"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Then later, after you have written and saved all the verses, each verse as a separate document, later we put them all together in a book layout, using either SignBank DocumentMaker, a program we developed, or in Microsoft Word...and one verse will follow after the other...each verse has its number at the top of each verse, so there is no mistaking how to put the book together...</div><div><br></div><div>Want to see an example of this? We have a "first draft version" of the first three chapters of John, available for download on the web:</div><div><br></div><div>SignWriting Bible Passages in ASL</div><div>Romero Translation</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/library/bible/">http://www.signwriting.org/library/bible/</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Download the first document John 1-3</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">That document was prepared in SignPuddle as described above, and then I used ColumnMaker and DocumentMaker to prepare the layout of the book. When the time comes, I will be happy to teach you how...</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Val ;-)</span></font></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></body></html>