<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>May 20, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Maria!</div><div>Thanks for this message...</div><div><br><div><div>Maria wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">1) I will signwrite multiple facial expressions the way Stefan is doing<br>so..wow I think his work is wonderful, well done! It's amazing to see how<br>much work signwriting work is building up all over the globe :)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes! Stefan's dictionary is amazing...</div><div><br></div><div>German Sign Language Dictionary in SignPuddle</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=8&sgn=53">http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=8&sgn=53</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">German Sign Language Literature in SignPuddle</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=8&sgn=26">http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=8&sgn=26</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>And guess what?! Stefan has recently translated the entire SignPuddle Reference Manual into the German spoken language...would you prefer the manual in German? I will post it shortly on the web...thank you, Stefan!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite">Maria wrote:<br>2) I've managed to use the 'Translate' Feature from ASL puddle to upload<br>the fingerspelling handshapes that are the same as LSM. I also managed to<br>signwrite the different fingerspelling handshapes used in LSM. I have<br>saved each handshape as a seperate entry in the Puddle.</blockquote><div><br></div>Excellent!</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>3) I'm now trying to see how I can save separate signs and then using<br>Translate Feature load the sign into SignText...now here I'm getting<br>stuck, sorry :( I can't seem to find a way to do this. For example if I<br>have the sign MARY saved, and the sentence starts with MARY, how can i<br>translate it INTO the text?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can see by number 2 above that you already know how to start a new sentence using the Translate feature, so you must be asking how to insert a sign into a text that has already been written and saved? Are you asking how to change a document you already saved, by re-loading it into the SignText Editor, and you then want to insert a sign?</div><div><br></div><div>If that is your question, you cannot use the Translate Feature in that case...at this time we do not have that kind of feature related to the Translate Feature</div><div><br></div><div>But you can insert a new sign into a document, but just not using the Translate Feature....</div><div><br></div><div>To insert a new sign into a document, re-load the saved document into the SignText Editor, and then write the new sign you want to insert, and then use the Insert Button...this is explained in the Reference Manual on page 76. It is Number 56 in the Table of Contents of the reference manual...</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>My last question is about the button 'Clear all'..should I fear it the way<br>I do? ;)) If I click on it by mistake, will all the signs written on that<br>page be lost and never retrieved again?</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>If you mean the "Delete All" button...that deletes that one sign entry in the dictionary...that is explained on page 39 in the Reference Manual, and it is number 24 in the Table of Contents...</div><div><br></div><div>If you mean the "Clear All" button that is inside SignMaker while you are creating an individual sign, which you have not saved it yet, then that just clears the SignBox so you can start writing again in the SignBox...nothing is hurt because you haven't saved anything yet...</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps!</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div></div></body></html>