<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That is just fine. I can deal with that. ;-)<div><br></div><div>Adam</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 16, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Steve Slevinski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Adam,<br> <br> Unfortunately, it's a 2 step process right now.<br> <br> The first page converts BSW 2008 to BSW 2010:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://signbank.org/iswa_dev/convert/example.php">http://signbank.org/iswa_dev/convert/example.php</a><br> <br> The second page converts BSW 2010 to BSW 3:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://signbank.org/iswa_dev/convert/bsw3.php">http://signbank.org/iswa_dev/convert/bsw3.php</a><br> <br> Section 4 of the conversion document links to both pages.<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://signbank.org/iswa_dev/convert/">http://signbank.org/iswa_dev/convert/</a><br> <br> <br> Speaking of conversions, building on the idea of encoding the symbols, but not the layout, I've created 2 different markups that will be able to use my proposed Unicode implementation. One Cartesian and the other Polar. These markups can be created from any SignPuddle data. <br> <br> If we consider "Hello world." in ASL...<br> <img alt="" height="109" width="54" src="cid:part1.09040204.03010609@signpuddle.net"><br> <br> <br> The Cartesian markup uses XY coordinates, where the coordinates represent the top,left of the symbol position.<br> <br> SignWriting Cartesian Markup<br> ---------------------------------------<br> B<img alt="" height="21" width="16" src="cid:part2.07040200.01010308@signpuddle.net">-19,-29<img alt="" height="28" width="10" src="cid:part3.01090604.06020500@signpuddle.net">3,-11 B<img alt="" height="12" width="20" src="cid:part4.04010800.09020703@signpuddle.net">-11,12<img alt="" height="16" width="16" src="cid:part5.09050101.02020501@signpuddle.net">-18,-10<img alt="" height="7" width="7" src="cid:part6.06070803.00010506@signpuddle.net">6,-7<img alt="" height="14" width="12" src="cid:part7.07040606.04000808@signpuddle.net">-2,-30 <img alt="" height="5" width="50" src="cid:part8.00060801.09050208@signpuddle.net"><br> <br> <br> The Polar markup uses degrees and distance from the center of the sign, where the coordinates represent the center of the symbol position. 12 o'clock is 0° and increases clockwise. So 3 o'clock is 90°, 6 o'clock is 180, and 9 o'clock is 270. It may be very interesting to analyze the Polar markup.<br> <br> SignWriting Polar Markup<br> ----------------------------------<br> B<img alt="" src="cid:part2.07040200.01010308@signpuddle.net">330°16<img alt="" src="cid:part3.01090604.06020500@signpuddle.net">129°14 B<img alt="" src="cid:part4.04010800.09020703@signpuddle.net">169°21<img alt="" src="cid:part5.09050101.02020501@signpuddle.net">252°6<img alt="" src="cid:part6.06070803.00010506@signpuddle.net">80°11<img alt="" src="cid:part7.07040606.04000808@signpuddle.net">19°21 <img alt="" src="cid:part8.00060801.09050208@signpuddle.net"><br> <br> Thought I'd share,<br> -Steve<br> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>