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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Valerie, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>thank you very much for
your excellent explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Regards Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> SignWriting
List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Im Auftrag von </span></b>Valerie Sutton<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Montag, 8. April 2013
22:14<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b>
SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Re: AW: Using the
SignWriting Thin Viewer bookmark on iOS</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>SignWriting List<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>April 8, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hello Steve, Stefan and Maria -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thank you for this discussion…And thank you, Steve, for your excellent
explanation below…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Maybe this will help…I will explain it from my
"non-computer-programmer" perspective…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>1. Underneath the visual world we see on computer screens, is a bunch
of source code, based on 0s and 1s, that I have no clue how they work! But by
some miracle I use computers everyday, and computers are a blessing for all of
us…but there is source code hidden underneath what we see. While I am typing
this message, there is source code that is helping me do it, yet I never see
it…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2. When we write SignWriting in SignPuddle, or in Delegs Software, or
in SignWriter Studio, there is source code underneath the visual SignWriting
symbols. I know the source code is there, but I never have to think about it,
because I can live and breath inside the beautiful visual world of SignWriting
and sign languages…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>3. Steve has developed the source code to make this possible, which he
calls FSW, for Formal SignWriting, and if you saw the source code for a
SignWriting text you would be amazed…you can see it anytime….Go to a SignPuddle
document, and clicking on the FSW link at the bottom of the document - and
there you can see the underlying sources, that are like long strings of letters
and numbers and so forth -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>4. Up until this new development, the only software that could read
those FSW sources were software programs specially designed for SignWriting,
like SignPuddle or Delegs, but now with this new development called the
SignWriting Thin Viewer, which is a plugin that can be installed on web pages
and can also be used in the Bookmarks of your web browser…now if you see some
of that FSW code but cannot see what the SignWriting looks like, because you
are outside our specialized software, you can use the SW Thin Viewer to see
what the SignWriting really looks like, and you are not using SignPuddle or
Delegs, but other web sites! For the first time, we are "stepping
out" of our own specially designed environments and using SignWriting in
the general world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>5. Let me give you an example…I create web pages using HTML by using a
program called DreamWeaver. Before now, for me to place some SignWriting from
SignPuddle onto my new web page, I would have to go into SignPuddle and click
on the ColumnMaker button and format the column and then save it as an SVG-PNG,
and then bring it into my web design as a graphic file… but now, with the new
SW Thin Viewer plugin, I can instead paste the plugin source on the header of
my new web page, and then I don't have to create a graphic of the SignWriting
any longer - I can bypass ColumnMaker and just grab the FSW code and paste it
into my new web page and save the page and when I post it on the web, it will
show up as real SignWriting instead of the FSW code - so it bypassed my having
to create a graphic of the file -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This has a great future for iPhones too - and for iPads - there is much
to explain but there are no worries either - because we can still work just as
we have before and no one is forcing us to change anything - just new
opportunities - smile -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Val ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Apr 8, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <<a
href="mailto:slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET">slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET</a>> wrote:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 4/8/13 3:04 AM, MARIA GALEA wrote:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear Steve,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Well done for the accomplishment - however all this information is just
an<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>unknown language for me since my programming skills are non-existent.
Do<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>you think you could somehow simplify what is going on. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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On 4/8/13 7:58 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi Maria, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>this is exactly what has been on my mind. I would love to estimate what
is<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>going on but I do not understand ... Will this accomplichment change<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>anything in the way I am using SignWriting with SignPuddle or the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>delegs-software? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks for your message! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>All best <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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Hi Stefan & Maria,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your patience and interest. <br>
<br>
When reading SignWriting, we want to see the signs like...<br>
<br>
<img border=0 width=52 height=138
id="_x0035_b768da1-242b-47b9-a95a-b09953bebe24"
src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE34BD.7CECCC80" apple-width=yes apple-height=yes><br>
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However, that is a graphic. The real name of each sign is a string.<br>
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If we use ASCII, the text is:<br>
M518x529S14c20481x471S27106503x489 M523x536S2eb48485x504S10011502x463S2eb04507x497S10019477x472<br>
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Unicode without a font (image)<br>
<img border=0 width=626 height=22
id="_x0037_f7256bc-675d-49e4-98ba-551ac9b44199"
src="cid:image002.jpg@01CE34BD.7CECCC80" apple-width=yes apple-height=yes><br>
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Unicode without a font (characters)<br>
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Unicode with a local font:<br>
screen capture from <a href="http://SignPuddle.com">SignPuddle.com</a><br>
with Graphite enabled in Firefox.<br>
<a href="http://signpuddle.com/#font">http://signpuddle.com/#font</a><br>
<br>
<img border=0 width=615 height=185
id="_x0032_e1492ce-7249-48f2-847a-72f18164b63e"
src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE34BD.7CECCC80" apple-width=yes apple-height=yes><br>
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<br>
<br>
Formal SignWriting<br>
============<br>
Until the SignWriting font is perfected, we will be using Formal SignWriting as
the ASCII codes.<br>
<br>
Here is what Formal SignWriting looks like:<br>
M518x529S14c20481x471S27106503x489 M518x533S1870a489x515S18701482x490S20500508x496S2e734500x468
S38800464x496<br>
<br>
The word "Formal" is used in the technical sense of a "Formal
language". It basically means each word is formed as a string
of characters.<br>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language<br>
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The Plugin<br>
=======<br>
The plugin basically takes the ASCII string and wraps it for presentation.
This first plugin works for web pages and HTML documents. The
writers must still deal with the FSW, but the reader is shown the
SignWriting images.<br>
<br>
Please view SignPuddle.com without the plugin enabled.<br>
http://signpuddle.com/index2.html<br>
<br>
Notice the Formal SignWriting strings. If you have the SignWriting Thin
Viewer bookmark ready, you can run the plugin in your browser to show the
SignWriting instead of the Formal SignWriting.<br>
<br>
Now view SignPuddle.com with the plugin enabled.<br>
http://signpuddle.com/index.html<br>
<br>
The purpose of the plugin is to replace the Formal SignWriting strings and
display the SignWriting. <br>
<br>
If the web site includes the SignWriting Thin Viewer, you will see the
SignWriting:<br>
http://signpuddle.com/index.html<br>
<br>
If the web site does not use the SignWriting Thin Viewer, you will see the
Formal SignWriting ASCII strings. It is here that you can use the
bookmark.<br>
http://signpuddle.com/index2.html<br>
<br>
I hope to explain it better with videos and more features in the near future.<br>
<br>
I'd be happy to answer any questions.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
-Steve<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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