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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Hello,</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">My name is Yosra, t</span><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; ">his is my first message to the SignWriting List.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; ">I'm a student from Tunisia and </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">I want to learn more about SignWriting and his SWML format.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; ">I hope you answer my questions that are really making me confused right now.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; "><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; ">First one: C</span><span style="text-align: justify; ">ould you please tell me how to</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; ">generate the SWML file of a sign from SignPuddle Online Dictionaries?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; ">I have tried several times but have</span><span style="line-height: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> failed to do so.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="text-align: justify; "><font color="#2a2a2a" style="line-height: normal; "><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; "><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Second one: W</span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 10pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; ">hat information can be gathered from the</span></font><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "> SWML file</span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> to interpret correctly the surface relationships between the articulators?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; ">For example</font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; ">, the sign "monthly" is made by tracing the right index finger from the top to the bottom of the left index </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; "><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">and</b></span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">the right finger <b style="font-weight: bold; ">must be placed</b> between the body and the left finger.</span></div></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">According to the SW notation, this sign can be easily read without using surface symbols.</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">It is clear here that the right hand symbol is located above the left hand symbol to indicate that the right hand is on front of the signer.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">But on the other side, it will not be easy to deduct </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">this relationship from</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> the SWLM file if we only use the (x,y) coordinates of the symbols.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">So, can we get more informations about the symbols like width and height, for example?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><span style="text-align: justify; ">Thanks in advance</span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; ">Yosra</span></div></div> </div></body>
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