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Hi Charles,<br>
<br>
SignMail is usable, but needs a major update.<br>
<br>
Keep using SignPuddle.<br>
<br>
An assembler is a good description of the SignWriting Image Server<br>
package. I will add a bit more polish to the user interface, but it is<br>
a standards document for assembling sign language as data using<br>
SignWriting. It contains very dense, low level stuff available as an<br>
open standard. Horay!<br>
<br>
This is an important milestone. With the alphabet as the ISWA 2010, and<br>
with Binary SignWriting as the script encoding model, I think we're<br>
ready for a 10 year freeze on our open standard.<br>
<br>
There are different ways to structure the alphabet and different ways to<br>
model the script, but to go from concept to working system will require<br>
a huge investment of time, creativity, teamwork, testing, and feedback.<br>
I don't believe a superior system will be created.<br>
<br>
I think it is time for SignWriting to be added to any and all software.<br>
SWIS can be used for web servers applications. The desktop will come in<br>
time. <br>
<br>
I think we can submit a proposal to Unicode for consideration in their<br>
standard at any time. Presently, I'm not going to spend my time dealing<br>
with Unicode directly. However, I will support an unofficially UTF-8
encoding that is data and size equivalent.<br>
<br>
In 3 years, if we're still using our standard and no other solutions<br>
has progressed to a usable form, I will approach Unicode with an
official proposal<br>
for their consideration. We will be a standard that is international,
open, and widely used. If Unicode truly wants to earn the title of the
"Universal Character Encoding", it would be foolish to ignore a
historical encoding that can be used for any of the world's sign
languages.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Charles Butler wrote:
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<div>Is there still a possibility of simply clipping a sign for use,
for example, in a card, or a dictionary, without going through this
assembler? If one wants to pick particular signs, arrange them in a
specific order and not go through this particular publisher, how does
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<div>Does the mail function still work?</div>
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<div>Charles</div>
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<hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
Steve Slevinski <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET"><slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET></a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, May 12,
2010 10:07:32 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
SignWriting Image Server for web servers, Windows, and Mac<br>
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Hi Adam,<br>
<br>
The column.php script produces an image. The columns.php script is an
example HTML page. The iframe may be your best option, but here are 2
additional options.<br>
<br>
First, the column.php script takes an optional "col" attribute. By
default, "col" is equal to 1, the first column. If you knew how many
columns were in the sign text, you could duplicate the image code with
the same BSW code and only need to modify the "col" attribute. For
example, if a sign text had 3 columns, you could use 3 images, all with
the same BSW, but add "&col=2" for the second column and
"&col=3" for the third.<br>
<br>
Another option is to code in PHP. Open the "columns.php" script and
take a look. It's not very long. The 2 most important lines are...<br>
<br>
$st = new SignText($bsw,$size,$height);<br>
$cols = $st->getCols();<br>
<br>
The $cols variable is a simple array of BSW. This automatically splits
the BSW up into segments for the "column.php" image script. It does
the same thing that you were doing by hand.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
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