<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I am confused about the slashed hands in the lessons in Sign Writing. I have been teaching handwriting, and the handwriting symbols have not usually been taught with lines across them except as a shorthand for hands horizontal rather than vertical. Having a hand with a slash does not appear in the current SignPuddle and so my Ethiopian students are likely to be confused. I use arrows to show directions where there are not other than the four points of the compass. The 45 degree plane is not very well defined on handshapes, so this has really confused me.</div><div><br></div><div>Sign shown:</div><div> /\</div><div> / \</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;font-size:13px"><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> Tue, January 11, 2011 6:00:40 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> AW: SignPuddle 1.5<br></font><br>
Hi Valerie, <br><br>thank you so much for this answer! <br><br>Just allow an additional question. Di you have any idea whatsoever when the<br>new SignPuddle 1.6 will be online? <br><br>Is their anything to fear about the signs that have been edited with the<br>SignPuddle 1.5 software so far. The reason for my question - well you know<br>that a while ago there has been a major change with additional symbols in<br>the symbol set. At that time a special "mouth symbol" got a different number<br>because a different symbol has been added. So lots of signs which use this<br>"N" or "D" or "L" mouth got mixed up and now I try to systematically fix<br>this bug. <br><br>I do not want to push it by any reason. I am just curious because you<br>mention tah a new SignPuddle version using all the symbols (graphemes) of<br>the new International SignWriting Alphabet 2010 is going to be installed ...<br><br><br><br>Stefan ;-)
<br><br>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<br>Von: SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages<br>[mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU" href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a>] Im Auftrag von Valerie Sutton<br>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2011 21:46<br>An: <a ymailto="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU" href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a><br>Betreff: Re: SignPuddle 1.5<br><br>SignWriting List<br>January 6, 2011<br><br>Hello Stefan!<br>Thank you for this message to Steve (?) - I am not sure if he saw this,<br>since Steve is programming a new version of SignPuddle called SignPuddle<br>1.6, which is different than SignPuddle 1.5...<br><br>SignPuddle 1.6 is not finished yet, so we cannot use it yet, but Steve<br>showed me a little bit of it today and it is going to be wonderful, when it<br>is ready. It uses the new International SignWriting Alphabet 2010,
and it<br>will fix the link to SignMail, that we need so badly...SignText will be<br>easier to view and it coordinates with future developments for using better<br>looking symbols in SVG and so forth...<br><br>Steve has also posted his internet draft encoding the ISWA 2010, and we are<br>working towards Unicode for SignWriting this year -<br><br>So the new SignMail is not here yet, but it will be coming -<br><br>I will also write soon with new developments - Very exciting and positive<br>time for all of us -<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br>---------<br><br>On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:<br><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div></div></body></html>