<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>September 13, 2011</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Charles Butler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit; ">In this case, the thumb is at the top and the hand is clearly pointing to the right, that is a 90 degree from straight up and down, so I am curious as to the answer to this as well.</td></tr></tbody></table></span></blockquote></div></div><div><br></div><div>----</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Charles, Stefan, Adam, Bill and everyone -</div><div><br></div><div>I believe we are all writing the same on this one, Charles - As you can see by the attached... directing the hand to the side like this example is the same for both writing styles... at least this looks good to me ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>And the differences between the writing styles are very few...it only happens in a few rare cases...As far as I can see, both styles of writing are the same on side-view palm facings, and are the same on back-of-hand palm facings ...it is only some white palm hand symbols that are different - and only a handful (no pun intended ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>I will prepare a diagram to explain the 10 palm facings, and how the software limited us to 6 back in 1985, and how the confusion started with a mix of four palm facings that didn't exist in the software - now looking back I can see where the holes in the system led to the confusion - but it relates to so few hand symbols and the software is so flexible and stable now, that no one is held back by our history - and in time this will all work out - it is always good to discuss these things -</div><div><br></div><div>I hope you have a great weekend - my family life takes more time from my days now, so I am not working as many hours as before - I am a caregiver for my aging parents....but when I have time, I am here on the List - Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="1359" width="649" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="e99ce353-7ae8-48a4-b2d9-25c5e516720e" src="cid:73B7B1C4-FE25-4307-B5B8-4D04C1F06737"></div></body></html>