<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="">September 2, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Wow! This is a big surprise, Steve - thank you!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And thanks to Jonathan too - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I really like these additions - to be able to write signs in colors, and also, to be able to write some signs with one symbol larger than the other, actually is useful for writing depth - the smaller hand or symbol would be read as “further away from the body", and the larger symbol would be read as “closer to the body”…So this special styling is a great addition -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Steve - may I share your new Slides with my Facebook page?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SignWriting" class="">https://www.facebook.com/SignWriting</a></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><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 2, 2015, at 10:34 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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Recently, I had the chance to talk with Jonathan Duncan (SignWriter
Studio) about several issues. One issue he mentioned was size and
color within a sign. It started me thinking, and I made a few
improvements to SignMaker and the SignWriting 2010 Javascript
library.<br class="">
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I added padding, background color, and the colorize option. Here is
the sign for SignWriting with a padding of 10, a background of
"lightblue", and the colorized option selected. These options are
now available in SignMaker on both the PNG and SVG tabs.<br class="">
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<img width="99" height="232" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="79C3C397-DB9A-4608-800C-DD79831331EC" src="cid:part1.05010000.03030506@signpuddle.net" class=""><br class="">
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For programmers and power-users, I have created a new type of
string, called the styling string. The styling string succinctly
describes styling for the entire sign and for individual symbols.<br class="">
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The styling string for the above is: -CP10G(lightblue) <br class="">
* C for colorize<br class="">
* P10 for a padding of 10<br class="">
* G(lightblue) for a background color of lightblue<br class="">
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You can use the styling string in SignMaker on the PNG or SVG tabs.
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You can also use the styling string on the SignWriting 2010
Javascript library API page.<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://slevinski.github.io/sw10js/api.html#sign">http://slevinski.github.io/sw10js/api.html#sign</a><br class="">
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For the FSW, enter the sign string with the styling string at the
end. For example:<br class="">
M523x535S10019478x475S10011502x466S2ea04507x502S2ea48485x510-CP10G(lightblue)<br class="">
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For the individual symbols within a sign, you can set the color and
size using a styling string. This is not yet supported through the
user interface of SignMaker, except through the styling string. <br class="">
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Here are 3 examples were individual symbols have been doubled in
size.<br class="">
<img width="249" height="107" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="EC658CF8-CB7C-4DFD-8842-E151FDE76A0F" src="cid:part2.00080409.08080305@signpuddle.net" class=""><br class="">
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The styling string is definitely not a plain text concept, but it is
useful. I've put a presentation together about the concepts with
some examples.<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/beyond-signwriting-plain-text">http://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/beyond-signwriting-plain-text</a><br class="">
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Regards,<br class="">
~Steve
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