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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">In Italy, Fabrizio Borgia (univ. "Sapienza"
of Rome 1), one of my "favorites collaborators", is working on an OCR
system for SW for his PhD Thesis. When he will finish we can handwrite SW, scan
it and obtain a digital version unloadable in the puddle. With Fabrizio we also
develop new software (called SWift) for typing SW, in my opinion is really
faster than SignMaker. I have to ask him when our SWift will be available for
everyone. But you can have an overview in the last chapter of my PhD thesis and
in some of our articles (available here: </font><a href="http://www.csbianchini.com/index.php/liste-commentee-des-publications" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">http://www.csbianchini.com/</font><font color="#0000ff" size="3">index.php/liste-commentee-des-</font><font color="#0000ff" size="3">publications</font></a><font color="#000000" size="3">)<br>
Claudia</font></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/5/5 Kimberley Shaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skifoot@gmail.com" target="_blank">skifoot@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
You said it, Charles!<br>
That's why so many of my SW texts exist in handwritten -- but not yet<br>
"typeset" -- drafts.<br>
Best,<br>
Kim from Boston<br>
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On 5/5/13, Charles Butler <<a href="mailto:chazzer3332000@yahoo.com" target="_blank">chazzer3332000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Having been a part of the SignWriting community for more than 30 years, i am<br>
> somewhat concerned that the usefulness of a typing program has been lost.<br>
><br>
> When computers were first introduced to signwriting, I went to New York City<br>
> for a demonstration of program on the AppleIIe which worked almost<br>
> magically.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I could start with an English sentence, with a highlight of a mouse change<br>
> that sentence to ASL fingerspelling, and then go through and word by word<br>
> replace English words with ASL signs and then begin moving them around to<br>
> show the changes into ASL grammar.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I can't do that now. Entry into the SW puddle is slow, painstaking, and is<br>
> not given to the speed of typing which is going to be needed if SW is ever<br>
> going to be an everyday writing system on a computer.<br>
><br>
><br>
> What ever happened to the approach of typing, not moving a mouse, to<br>
> retrieve a handshape, rotate it, add facial expressions, and think like a<br>
> signer not digging through a mouse-retrieval system to a shape buried under<br>
> 5 layers of clicking?<br>
><br>
><br>
> With the change to your new coding system, that becomes even less<br>
> transparent. It may be great for programmers but for the layperson it has<br>
> become frustrating and trying to demo a program in a public school system is<br>
> not one I would want to do now.<br>
><br>
><br>
> SignWriting as handwriting is still very useful, but even with my dictionary<br>
> program, I can't just "retrieve" an entry. A relational database would have<br>
> to be tied to every piece of writing, and that gets very cumbersome. What<br>
> happens if the net goes down, there goes the writing.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Charles Butler<br>
> <a href="mailto:chazzer3332000@yahoo.com" target="_blank">chazzer3332000@yahoo.com</a><br>
> 240-764-5748<br>
> Clear writing moves business forward.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Claudia S. Bianchini, PhD<br>A.T.E.R. Licence SDL-LSF @ Univ. Poitiers (France)</div><div><a href="mailto:chiadu14@gmail.comt" target="_blank">chiadu14@gmail.com</a></div>
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