<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">January 11, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yair -</div><div class="">THANK YOU…is all I can say! What a gift to give the world... a new way to type the SignWriting Script.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just want you to know that your message has not gone unnoticed and that I look forward to working with your new developments -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope in time that your new typing system will coordinate with the new work that both Steve and Jonathan are doing on their own software - and that it will also work in Wikipedias for writing articles...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is a screen capture of the Yair Rand SignWriting keyboard… I hope others will test it too…Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="209" width="736" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="08BFF73A-0509-4757-8E09-A7389AEB84E9" src="cid:58B55E7A-4A0C-47E7-833D-ADF9263527BD" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">———————————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 11, 2015, at 9:44 PM, Yair Rand <<a href="mailto:yyairrand@GMAIL.COM" class="">yyairrand@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Several days ago I reworked the handshape-selecting bit of the SignWriting Keyboard script, with the aim of making it somewhat quicker and easier to find the desired handshape. Typing is still quite a bit slower than I'd like it to be, so I'm also experimenting with a bunch of different options to try to speed things up, using the shift keys. One can duplicate symbols by pressing Shift+NextSymbol, and switch hands by pressing Shift+MiddleLane buttons. (I might move those around, as they're not the easiest keys to reach, I think.) Holding shift can also be used to move and rotate symbols faster. Any suggestions for additional ways to allow for quicker typing speeds would be much appreciated.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm still working on making it possible to use the script to type SignWriting into any text boxes on the internet. This is turning out to be more difficult than expected, especially since having the option to mix plain text and SignWriting is a necessity is many areas.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The keyboard currently has all of the text portions available only in English, which is rather unfortunate. If anyone wants to remedy this by translating some of the relevant messages into a sign language, that would be quite helpful: </div><div class="">* "Left lane"</div><div class="">* "Middle lane"</div><div class="">* "Right lane"</div><div class="">* "Next symbol" (or perhaps just "Next", if it won't fit otherwise)</div><div class="">* "Delete lefthand symbol" and "Delete righthand symbol" (or perhaps just "Delete symbol" or just "Delete")</div><div class="">* "Duplicate symbol" (or "Duplicate")</div><div class="">* "Fingerspelling mode" (or "Fingerspelling")</div><div class="">* "Autocomplete"</div><div class="">* Something like "Swap sides", indicating that the left and right hands are switched. (I don't even know what to label that in English yet...)</div><div class="">* "Toggle plaintext"</div><div class="">These need to fit into the keys, so space is limited.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Additionally, if anyone knows where I could find fingerspelling layouts in FSW for sign languages other than ASL, that would be useful. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Link to the SignWriting Keyboard script: <a href="https://googledrive.com/host/0B1Pz4n6wXAfvT18yOTFoSE5Sa2s/SWKB.html" class="">https://googledrive.com/host/0B1Pz4n6wXAfvT18yOTFoSE5Sa2s/SWKB.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks. </div><div class="">--Yair Rand</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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