<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>February 9, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>What a brilliant idea, for a 2-Laned Horizontal Writing, Steve. Thank you for designing this. Of course, Stefan, your opinion and suggestions are the most important and we look forward to hearing from you on this idea…</div><div><br></div><div>If I were choosing, I would place signs that use the Overhead View of the Head in the Middle Lane, since the head in that exceptional case is not showing Facial Expressions or Head Movements - it is only a viewpoint used rarely to show depth…so it would be a Middle Lane sign from my perspective…</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think, Stefan?</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>-------</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Hi Stefan and list,<br>
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I've been working on the SignWriting Image Server. I updated the
display function to output horizontal writing.<br>
<img alt="" id="81a14c1e-cffe-4eff-af06-123c22a7acbc" height="114" width="169" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:part1.09030500.00070708@signpuddle.net"><br>
I tried out a new style of layout for horizontal writing and I'd
like your feedback. Here's the output for 4 signs and 1
punctuation.<br>
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<img alt="" id="4c92fdc5-0683-41c5-9824-1b46124afc67" height="156" width="541" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:part2.02010100.05030107@signpuddle.net"><br>
This uses a technique similar to vertical writing because it uses
lanes and offsets. There are 2 lanes: a middle lane and an upper
head lane. Punctuation is always centered in the middle lane. The
second and the fourth signs are centered in the middle lane. The
first and third signs are centered in the head lane. Any sign that
has head symbols is vertically offset upwards into the head lane.<br>
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Signs written in the overhead view may cause complications, but
otherwise I think the idea is solid.<br>
<img alt="" id="b340172e-61a8-4ba3-ab9a-3afa7ff34234" height="110" width="99" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:part3.04000809.01010404@signpuddle.net"><br>
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Thoughts or feedback would be appreciated.<br>
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Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
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