<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="">June 5, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Congrats and thank you, Steve, for this major new software, using the new SignWriting TrueType Fonts. SignMaker 2015 works as a web application on all devices, using the Android and Apple OS systems, for tablets, smartphones and computers - Yeah!! ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Steve is also working on, and almost ready to publish an App as well, that will someday be available in the iTunes and Google stores - The App still needs a little tweaking, but it is available right now in Android as Steve mentions below...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Meanwhile everyone can use the web application on any device - I found it confusing to understand the difference between a “web application” and an App, but nonetheless, there is a difference. So the “web application” (which means going to a web page on your tablet or phone or computer), is working right now for everyone...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am working on the support web pages this weekend - I will try to write a quick and easy summary of how to use the software.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Monday, June 8th, I will start the web pages for the presentations at the SignWriting Symposium 2015 - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you again Steve, and great to hear from you, Carine - Look forward to keeping in touch -</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=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 5, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Carine Dingemans <<a href="mailto:dingemans.carine@TELENET.BE" class="">dingemans.carine@TELENET.BE</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Thank you for a all the hard work!</div><div class=""><br class="">Carine</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-----------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 5, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <<a href="mailto:slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET" class="">slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Hi SignWriting List,<br class="">
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Yesterday, I released version 1.2 of the new SignMaker. There are a
couple of great improvements and much wider platform support for
desktops, tablets, and phones.<br class="">
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<img width="96" height="96" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="8E511835-50E4-4C48-9994-F75F0FB1A2A9" src="cid:part1.01070005.00070309@signpuddle.net" class=""><br class="">
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SignMaker Index page on SignBank:<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signbank.org/signmaker.html">http://www.signbank.org/signmaker.html</a><br class="">
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Valerie Sutton is currently improving the SignMaker Index page on
SignBank. Thanks for your hard work Val.<br class="">
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SignMaker Project Page:<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/Slevinski/signmaker">https://github.com/Slevinski/signmaker</a><br class="">
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SignMaker and Fonts<br class="">
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I'm happy to announce that SignMaker now works without installing
the fonts on your system. If you don't feel like installing the
TrueType fonts on your system (Windows, Mac, Linux, or iOS) or you
can't (Android), the fonts will automatically be downloaded to your
browser's cache on the first visit. Once the fonts are downloaded
into the browser cache, any other SignWriting Font website will
automatically use the fonts cached in your browser. If you ever
clear your browser cache, the next visit to a SignWriting Font
website will download the font again and reinstall the font in the
browser cache. The fonts are 13 MB, so the first install make take
a few seconds or longer depending on your download speed and
processor.<br class="">
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I've tested Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, and Android. Nearly every
browser works as expected, with 3 exceptions. First, the default
Android browser is not usable. For Android, use Firefox or install
the App. Second, unless the system font is installed, for Linux you
may require a browser refresh if a page doesn't load properly the
first time. Third, Chrome has issues with the font.<br class="">
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Chrome and Chromium Font Issue<br class="">
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There are minor and major font issues with Chrome and Chromium. The
worst is that 5 symbols are missing. Specifically, S10008, S10009,
S1000a, S1000b, and S1000c. To see the issue in SignMaker, on the
symbol palette, click on the main index finger twice and then press
Mirror. You'll see a gap in the palette.<br class="">
<img width="67" height="65" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="B1623DCD-3028-4C32-B16A-1FE1CD706A94" src="cid:part2.06020009.04010206@signpuddle.net" class=""><br class="">
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I believe the problem is caused by certain characters on plane 16 of
Unicode. The affected codepoints are U+100009 thru U+10000D. I
will be researching the issue further and submitting a bug report to
the Chromium development team soon.<br class="">
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SignWriting App<br class="">
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There is an App available for Android. You can find information and
download links on the SignMaker project page.<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/Slevinski/signmaker/#android">https://github.com/Slevinski/signmaker/#android</a><br class="">
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Small screen and the popup keyboard<br class="">
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There are a few usability issue for small screens, especially when
the keyboard pops up. These issues are with the SignMaker
application itself, rather than the usage of the fonts. Even for
phones, the SignWriting 2010 JavaScript library and associated CSS
work properly for nearly everyone.<br class="">
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Create Website that use the SignWriting Fonts<br class="">
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Using the SignWriting 2010 Fonts requires a small JavaScript library
(17 KB) and a few CSS statements. With these 2 parts, any website
can show SignWriting to any viewer.<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/Slevinski/sw10js">https://github.com/Slevinski/sw10js</a><br class="">
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Future Development<br class="">
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Still lots to do. I'm excited for the symposium this year. I have
2 presentations to prepare. One will cover SignMaker in depth for
end users. Another will talk about the technology behind the
development.<br class="">
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A new SignText is coming later this year so that we can compose
entire sentences in SignWriting. It will be based on the new
SignMaker code.<br class="">
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Regards,<br class="">
~Steve<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://slevinski.github.io/">http://slevinski.github.io</a><br class="">
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