<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="">Hello Yu -<div class="">No. The link you show below in your message is NOT the Sign Keyboard in the SignWriter DOS program.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The link you have below is a “Fingerspelling Keyboard”, and that is NOT writing sign languages with the Sign Keyboad. A Fingerspelling Keyboard is used to type Fingerspelling, and that is not writing signs themselves…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So although the 17 Fingerspelling Keyboards do use SignWriting symbols to write the Manual Alphabets from different countries, they are not the Sign Keyboard for typing Sign Languages, using SignWriting…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The SignWriter Computer Program, which is not used much any longer because it is in MS DOS (you can still use it with DOSBOX installed), was a wonderful program because you could switch between three kinds of keyboards: Sign, Fingerspelling, and Latin Alphabet. So you could switch between typing Sign Language (Facial expressions, arm movements, hand movements, head movements, gesture), and Fingerspelling (the Manual Alphabets from the different countries that are a one-to-one correlation with the alphabets from the spoken languages of the countries but are not sign language), and typing words with the Roman (Latin) alphabet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So to learn the Sign Keyboard (not the Fingerspelling keyboard) you need to read this document (one I already directed you to):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0049-SWDOS-Type-Signs.pdf" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0049-SWDOS-Type-Signs.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As far as really using that keyboard, the problem is that it is an old program and you will need to download DOSBOX and install it on your computer and then download SignWriter DOS and install it inside of DOSBOX:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">SignWriter DOS Computer Program</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/sw44/index.html" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/sw44/index.html</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then start the program and start playing around with the keyboard…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So this Sign Keyboard which I designed is not inside a more modern program right now…I would love it if someone were willing to program the general design that we developed for SignWriter DOS, and somehow get it to work within newer more modern programs, but most software developers want to develop their own style of keyboard design…so if you want to do your own from scratch that is ok, but you have a big learning curve - you will need to know SignWriting (the ISWA 2010) and perhaps write some sign language yourself in SignPuddle Online - write a sign language document yourself with the drag and drop system in SignPuddle Online for awhile to see the symbols and how they work to get a feel as to what is needed -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Have you read our ASL Wikipedia articles? A typing system needs to be able to create these kinds of articles:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page" class="">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">or</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/ase/" class="">http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/ase/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Have you tried to type with Yair Rand’s keyboard?</div><div class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i class=""><a href="https://806e8abcad89c3043886d9f62a7903edbba39fa1.googledrive.com/host/0B1Pz4n6wXAfvT18yOTFoSE5Sa2s/SWKB.html" class="">https://806e8abcad89c3043886d9f62a7903edbba39fa1.googledrive.com/host/0B1Pz4n6wXAfvT18yOTFoSE5Sa2s/SWKB.html</a></i></pre><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">I am sure you will find your way Yu - I am just trying to give you a little experience with a very big subject matter - start writing some signs with SignPuddle right now… <a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/</a> … and through experience it will start to give you ideas -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</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 Mar 24, 2015, at 9:27 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 Val and Andre,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your reply and resources!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is this the keyboard that people are using and Val, you said you can type quickly while other people just type with one finger?<a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/fingkeys/fkey001.html" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/fingkeys/fkey001.html</a> And if there can be an tutorial for people to learn how to use it will be great?</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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:15 PM, André L <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:andre-andre@hotmail.ca" target="_blank" class="">andre-andre@hotmail.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello Yu,<br class=""> <br class="">Have a look at this document:<br class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0636_SignWriting_Alphabet_Manual_2010.pdf" target="_blank" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0636_SignWriting_Alphabet_Manual_2010.pdf</a><br class=""> <br class="">Also<br class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/downloads/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/downloads/</a><br class="">and<br class=""><a href="http://www.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/</a><br class=""> <br class="">André Lemyre<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:36:23 -0400<br class="">From: <a href="mailto:yz13kh@STUDENT.OCADU.CA" target="_blank" class="">yz13kh@STUDENT.OCADU.CA</a><br class="">Subject: SW Keyboard<br class="">To: <a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" target="_blank" class="">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><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></div></div><span class="">
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