<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Honza, <div><br></div><div>Speaking practically,</div><div><br></div><div>The only way that I could see more orientations being at all feasible is to have them created by a graphics program, but for practical writing reasons, having more than the 96 one has now would make the writing impossible to ever put in a dictionary. For animation, one can subdivide to infinity, but for ordinary writing, with any handshapes other than a flat hand, it's very hard to actually distinguish other orientations. All you use as a visual cue is a small oblong area with various shadings. </div><div><br></div><div>Charles Butler</div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 9/3/09, Honza <i><honza@ruce.cz></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Honza
<honza@ruce.cz><br>Subject: [sw-l] more handshape orientations<br>To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu><br>Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 4:41 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Val,<br><br>I like to ask if it in the future will be possible to have all 45°<br>rotations of handshapes instead of current 90°<br>I know it is possible to do it, and there are some symbols including<br>this additional four 45° rotations, but it is suitable for "reader<br>purpose only".<br>But I need to use SignWriting for more processing and current solution<br>is not suitable.<br>anyway without this "additional oriantations" writing is not always<br>precious enought.<br><br>thanks<br>Honza<br><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a ymailto="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu"
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