<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello Jonita,<br><br>My work around for this is to think in ASL and continually add the signs I want into a dictionary. Then, though this sacrifices lanes, one can create a document using the Translate figure to approximate the sentence in Pidgin and choose between the various signs that come up until you have at least a draft of your document. We do need a feature to copy any sign from a dictionary into a sign text document, I agree, but this is my work-around.<br><br>That, to me, is the best use of the "translate" feature. Its pidgin, but it at least gets down a rough and ready translation. <br><br>Charles<br><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 7/6/09, Valerie Sutton <i><sutton@signwriting.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Valerie Sutton
<sutton@signwriting.org><br>Subject: Re: [sw-l] Question<br>To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu><br>Cc: "Jonita Juhala" <josignj@aol.com><br>Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 1:54 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">SignWriting List<br>July 6, 2009<br><br>On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Ronald Dettloff wrote:<br>> Jonita and Ron ask: Is there a way to open up a Puddle document in one window, open up a dictionary in another and copy and paste the a sign from the dictionary to the Puddle document without re-writing the whole sign?<br><br>Hello Jonita and Ron!<br>Thank you for this question.<br><br>Unfortunately, that is not possible with our current software.<br><br>With SignPuddle you can...<br><br>1. copy individual signs between puddle dictionaries,<br><br>2. copy whole SignText documents from one puddle to another...<br><br>3. copy an individual sign from a SignText document and place it into a dictionary...<br><br>but you
cannot paste a sign from the dictionary inside a Signtext document you are currently writing...<br><br>So you will have to write that sign from scratch, in the SignText Editor...<br><br>For me, because I am very fast at creating signs, that doesn't bother me...<br><br>It will be good practice for you to re-write the sign (big grin ;-))<br><br>Thanks for the question on the List...this is helpful that you ask questions to the List -<br><br><br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br>Valerie Sutton<br><a ymailto="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</a><br><br>1. SignWriting<br>Read & Write Sign Languages<br><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org" target="_blank">http://www.SignWriting.org</a><br><br>2. SignPuddle<br>Create SignWriting Documents Online<br><a href="http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle" target="_blank">http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle</a><br><br>3. SignWriting Shop<br>Books, DVDs, Lessons,
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