<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>In terms of directionality and lanes, I have a query. Often in transcribing tapes, the head nods or the eyes change direction at a particular point before or after a sign. It would be easier for me to treat them as punctuation than try to put them in the same box. In that case, I almost want to put them, alone, in the left lane, as punctuation, and be able to put the sign in the middle lane parallel to the face change. Same thing happens with hands that are held through a sign. If I try to put them in a particular place in the box, they are moved to the right or the left rather than being pinned down to the exact same space in each sign I create. If it's a grid, I want it to be a grid that I can actually say (at point 150,150) so that the hand that is held is where
it is like, holding a flat hand vertical and pointing all around it. The flat hand sits there and the pointer hand moves all over. It's multiple signs in one sense, or one sign in a writing since.</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas. </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Stefan Wöhrmann <stefanwoehrmann@GEBAERDENSCHRIFT.DE><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, October 7, 2010 2:50:22 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> AW: Writing sign sentences in 5 possible directions<br></font><br>
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[mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU] Im Auftrag von Valerie Sutton<br>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2010 20:29<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="
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font-size:10.0pt;">Then let's add a feature someday that makes writing in 5 directions
possible: vertical, horizontal right-to-left, horizontal-left-to-right,
down-diagonal-right and down-diagonal-left. The horizontal, if being written
along side Arabic, might want to go from right to left as well as left to right
for western spoken languages...</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="
font-size:10.0pt;">As you can see by the attached screen capture, I included Punctuation
Symbols for writing in all 5 directions in the ISWA 2008 and 2010. Why? Because
I met one Deaf poet who wanted to write poetry in a diagonal before and needed
the Punctuation in a diagonal, and another wrote a poem in a circle ;-)</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="
font-size:10.0pt;">And portions of the Koran are being written now in Saudi Arabia, so I
suppose in time it will be nice to have a horizontal right to left....</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="
font-size:10.0pt;">So flexibility of writing direction, for headers in layouts, for
creative art projects and poetry, and for teaching different languages at the
same time, will all have the need for a choice...but we will default to writing
vertically since that is what Deaf people have requested of us, and when
writing sign language, without any comparison to any other language, it gives
us the most accurate grammar features that no other direction can give us,
because of the 3 Lanes...those are invaluable...</span></font></p>
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font-size:10.0pt;">A lot to program and so many different worlds to please...;-))</span></font></p>
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