<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>July 28, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Kim, Charles and everyone -</div><div><br></div><div>Great to hear from you, Kim...sounds like you are having a wonderful time! And I enjoyed looking at your handwritten pdf document...thanks for sending it to us...</div><div><br></div><div>As you know, I was the one who designed the keyboards in SignWriter DOS, and of course, the keyboard techniques mean a lot to me. However, I also enjoy the quick way that I can create full and beautiful documents in SignPuddle 1.5 (thank you, Steve), and I truly believe that using SignText, to create large documents, is very successful as well...</div><div><br></div><div>Both dragging-dropping and typing...are two techniques that are wonderful - and all of these techniques are useful for a certain percentage of the population...Not everyone prefers the keyboarding...and not everyone prefers the dragging and dropping...it depends on the person and their equipment...and what they have experience with...</div><div><br></div><div>So let me ask you, Kim...Have you ever tried to create a document in SignText in SignPuddle 1.5? You may find it fun and useful...I do anyway....so I like BOTH methods, and enjoy creating documents with either method...Try writing your handwritten pdf in the ASL Literature puddle...Go to:</div><div><br></div><div>ASL Literature Puddle</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=1&sgn=5">http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=5</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; ">and click on the SignText button to start a brand new document...</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><div><br></div><div>Charles recently started writing a series of History articles in the ASL Encyclopedia in SignPuddle, using SignText. Have you seen it? Very good job, Charles...I hope we can read more about the history of deafness later in the encyclopedia...</div><div><br></div><div>Go to:</div><div><br></div><div>ASL Encyclopedia 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=1&sgn=21">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=21</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; ">Val ;-)</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; ">--------------</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Kimberley Shaw wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello SignWriters:<br>I am back from my stage-signing (in ASL) debut at the 2008 GALA<br>festival in Miami, and would love to start putting up transcriptions<br>of our songs on the web! And I heartily agree with Charles -- if there<br>were a way to SignWrite with the keyboard, I would be very glad to<br>start using it. It is still far easier for me to grab pencil and pen,<br>than to be mouseclick-by-mouseclick building each sign online!<br>And so, I now have a PDF of a pencilled transcript of the song, "Over<br>the Rainbow", which I would like to show to the rest of you before I<br>create a nice, neat, WWW-ready copy. Will it reach all of you listserv<br>folks OK as an attachment?<br>Let me know how it reads, and if there are major changes that need to<br>be made, signs that don't make sense, etc.<br>I very much enjoyed performing this version onstage; it was created by<br>Ayisha Knight-Shaw, Deaf poet / artist / storyteller / photographer.<br>Best,<br>Kim from Boston<br><span><Over the Rainbow in ASL.pdf></span><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br>http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/<br><br>Change Email Settings<br>http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>