<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="">March 24, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would start with the International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA 2010) HTML Reference Guide:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signbank.org/iswa/" class="">http://www.signbank.org/iswa/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are over 37,000 symbols, if you count every rotation and flop and palm facing and different sizes of symbols and so forth -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And we already have keyboard designs…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But if you could do something new…like showing the picture of a hand, and then helping people learn to type with our existing keyboard designs - from that photograph, or from that life-like illustration, or from that animation, or from that spoken word, or whatever the inspiration -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That might really be useful -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I spent a decade of my life designing and working with Richard Gleaves on the SignWriter Computer Program's many keyboards, but not very many people learned to type with them - they instead picked at them with one finger at a time rather than doing speed-typing as I could…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I really wish people will learn to speed-type, but to do that they need to really know where all the symbols are…so the instruction was lacking -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And maybe other keyboards, like the new one of Yair Rand’s, could use a user friendly interface that would bring those who do not know SignWriting into typing it…just a thought - the more help you can provide users to learn to use the keyboards the better, based on something visual like animation or illustrations…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Take a look at Adam Frost’s work:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Animated Lessons in the ISWA 2010</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group01/01-01-001-01.html" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group01/01-01-001-01.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--------</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 24, 2015, at 7:36 PM, Yu Zhang <<a href="mailto:yz13kh@STUDENT.OCADU.CA" class="">yz13kh@STUDENT.OCADU.CA</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi my friends,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there any place to take a look at all the small parts of SW? So that I can roughly know how many keys could be.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you!!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class="">Yu</div></div>

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