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Hi,<br><br>this is an interesting discussion. And I like this solution. It reminds me of the way question marks and exclamation marks are written in Spanish - at the beginng and the end of the sentence, not like in English and Norwegian and lots of other languages, at the end only.<br><br>Ingvild
<br><br><br><br>> From: signwriting@mac.com<br>> To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignPuddle Brackets<br>> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:20:10 -0700<br>> CC: <br>> <br>> SignWriting List<br>> July 23, 2009<br>> <br>> There are several reasons why I personally do not use the brackets any <br>> longer, although they were symbols that I used daily, in other <br>> sections of our writing system, and are still definitely needed in <br>> Movement Writing<br>> <br>> One reason has to do with fluency in reading SignWriting Literature. <br>> When reading a language...like a novel or a newspaper... when you <br>> finally reach the end of a sentence, it is disconcerting to see a <br>> bracket and have to look back to see what was at the beginning of the <br>> sentence...going back on a sentence does not encourage fast reading of <br>> literature...we don't look back when reading spoken languages...<br>> <br>> Another reason - centering lanes with heads and shoulders...When <br>> writing vertically the head circles and shoulder lines create the <br>> "center of the lane you are writing in"...the center of the head and <br>> shoulder lines helps SignText give us an automatically centered <br>> vertical column, and this was hard to program - thank you, Steve!<br>> <br>> So the brackets throw the head off center because they are written to <br>> the side of the head, and since we do not write with the brackets for <br>> daily use anyway, they were not included in the ISWA 2008.<br>> <br>> But yes...there is a way to use brackets in SignText nonetheless...You <br>> build them with basic lines and then...<br>> <br>> The trick is to place the brackets in the Left Lane, while the real <br>> sentence is in the Center Lane...then you are not throwing the <br>> centering of the heads off kilter inside the sentence itself, and you <br>> can really see the brackets clearly sticking out in the Left Lane...<br>> <br>> Here is a sample...see attached...notice that we only have the bracket <br>> at the beginning and end...there is no way to continue the bracket <br>> line down the column in SignText..I think it is easier to read this <br>> way anyway...<br>> <br></body>
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