<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>August 30, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Many blessings to all of us - thank you Charles!</div><div><br></div><div>And it is actually Steve Slevinski who is doing the software development to create SignPuddle 3, which will give us better searches. Thank you, Steve!</div><div><br></div><div>Once the case sensitivity is fixed in SignPuddle 3, I would guess, that if someone searched for "to love", as you mention below, Charles, that that would list all the signs in the dictionary that have the search word "love", so you should be able to find them I hope ;-))</div><div><br></div><div>There are also new searches coming in other software, such as SignWriter Studio, by Jonathan Duncan - I will be testing those later and look forward to having several software programs that coordinate with each other, all using the ISWA 2010.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>-------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 30, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Charles Butler <<a href="mailto:chazzer3332000@YAHOO.COM">chazzer3332000@YAHOO.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div><span>Bless you Valerie, another challenge overcome. <br></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br><span></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Another challenge for translation in Latin languages is all of the different grammatical endings for a given word. While English has different words indicating tense, in the Latin-based languages, and many others, parts of speech are imbedded in the languages so amou (I love) or amei (I will love) or amasse (I might love) are single words and they all need to be shown under amar (to love). <br></span></div><div> </div><div>Charles
Butler<br><a href="mailto:chazzer3332000@yahoo.com">chazzer3332000@yahoo.com</a><br>240-764-5748<br>Clear writing moves business forward.</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM">signwriting@MAC.COM</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 30, 2013 12:21 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: case sensitivity<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8692531700">SignWriting List<div>August 30, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Charles -</div><div>Yes, of course you are right, and we all know this, including Steve, who is working long hours creating a
brand new database-style foundation for SignPuddle 3, that will fix this problem, plus move us into the modern era of smart phones, iPads and so forth…so Steve and I just had a meeting about it this morning. He hopes to have SignPuddle 3 ready in about a month, and one of the most welcome features will be to search without case sensitivity!!</div><div><br></div><div>We will keep you informed -</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your patience everyone - </div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 30, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Charles Butler <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:chazzer3332000@YAHOO.COM" target="_blank" href="mailto:chazzer3332000@YAHOO.COM">chazzer3332000@YAHOO.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="yiv8692531700Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:tahoma, 'new york', times,
serif;font-size:14pt;"><div><span>How long before this bug gets fixed? A lot of the interfaces automatically capitalize the first letter or force all caps or lower case. That does not help in finding words when one is typing ordinary text. So you show up with false negatives when you are trying to use the translator. I don't know if Delegs can work beyond that barrier, and this is a serious flaw. <br></span></div><div> </div><div>Charles Butler<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:chazzer3332000@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:chazzer3332000@yahoo.com">chazzer3332000@yahoo.com</a><br>240-764-5748<br>Clear writing moves business forward.</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Valerie Sutton
<<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM" target="_blank" href="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM">signwriting@MAC.COM</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" target="_blank" href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 30, 2013 12:11 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: SignWriting in PowerPoint<br> </font> </div> <div class="yiv8692531700y_msg_container"><br>SignWriting List<br>August 30, 2013<br><br>Hello Melinda!<br><br>Thank you for this message. Yes…I went to your exact link below, and it works for me…<br><br>But I think I know what is happening!<br><br>Right now, SignPuddle software is "case sensitive", so that is my fault to tell you to type HELLO with all caps - instead you have to type the words
without the capital letters…so instead type:<br><br>hello<br><br>all lower case letters...<br><br>Does that work for you?<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>