<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 12, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello André!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Happy New Year!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At the moment, Steve is working on a new 2-dimensional TrueType Font, and working on proposing an improved version of Unicode to the Unicode committees. It may take years before Unicode is perfected for SignWriting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So Steve himself will not be creating a keyboard at this moment....perhaps later...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But meanwhile...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignWriting already has the Javascript Keyboard, developed by Jair Rand, which we also call the RAND Keyboard, that works in Wikipedia, and in text fields on the web:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RAND Keyboard for SignWriting on Wikipedia and Web</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0041.html" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0041.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Type with the RAND Keyboard:</div><div class=""><a href="https://swkb-35431.firebaseapp.com" class="">https://swkb-35431.firebaseapp.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...and for those still using SignWriter DOS and JAVA, there are SignWriting keyboards working in both programs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And Jonathan Duncan is developing new software for the web, related to SignWriter Studio, and Jonathan's new software will include a new SignWriting keyboard...I do not know when that will be ready for use.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So with or without Unicode, the SignWriting script has several keyboards you can use right now, and more planned for the future.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What software are you using right now, André?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-----------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 12, 2017, at 9:02 AM, André Thibeault <<a href="mailto:atg@VIDEOTRON.CA" class="">atg@VIDEOTRON.CA</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="">Hi Val,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Will Steve develop a new SW keyboard?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">André</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223);" class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">De : </span> Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM" class="">signwriting@MAC.COM</a>><br class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Répondre à : </span> "SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages" <<a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Date : </span> Thu, 12 Jan 2017 07:53:18 -0800<br class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">À : </span> <<a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Objet : </span> Re: January 2017 - Report from Steve's desk<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">January 12, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello SignWriting List!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you Steve, for this report from your desk January 2017.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is inspired work. Without Steve, SignWriting symbols would not have been incorporated into Unicode v8 in 2015, and we are so fortunate that Steve is continuing to strive for an improved Unicode for the SignWriting script.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For those who may not be tuned into the world of Unicode...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class="">Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Writing sign languages with the SignWriting script is one of the writing systems in Unicode.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class="">But right now, even though the symbol characters of the International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) are in Unicode, they cannot be used properly for writing sign languages because we are still lacking the coordinate symbols that give us the ability to place one symbol on top of, or below, or to the side of another symbol. We need the "layout" ability to write down in vertical columns too.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class="">And it can be done in Unicode if the committees that administer Unicode accept Steve's idea of how to do it.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial,sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We are very hopeful that the enormous work Steve mentions in his report below, will be the key to the future of written sign languages on mobile devices as well as computers.</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class="">So thank you, Steve, for the links below. I particularly enjoyed looking at your slides, explaining this in simple terms:</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class="">SignWriting in Unicode Next, Version 3, 2017</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial,sans-serif" class=""><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/signwriting-in-unicode-next" class="">http://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/signwriting-in-unicode-next</a></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial,sans-serif" class="">Val ;-)</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial,sans-serif" class="">-------------</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 12, 2017, at 5:40 AM, Stephen Slevinski <<a href="mailto:slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET" class="">slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi SignWriting List,<br class=""><br class="">Happy New Year to all. I have lots to share and I hope you do too.<br class=""><br class="">First, I'm happy to celebrate 5 years of stability with Formal SignWriting: the computer encoding of Sutton SignWriting. I have a new internet draft available that contains all of the technical information about the specification.<br class="">* <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting" class="">https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting</a><br class=""><br class="">Second, I'd like to announce a new effort for Unicode. Section 4 of the document above contains a new design that builds on the 672 Unicode characters that have already been accepted. The new design completes the script encoding with an additional 17 characters. I've put together a brief presentation available online.<br class="">* <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/signwriting-in-unicode-next" class="">http://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/signwriting-in-unicode-next</a><br class=""><br class="">Third, the Center for Sutton Movement Writing is working on a grant proposal from the Wikimedia Foundation. The grant involves the creation of a 2-D font that will work with the new Unicode design. The new font will be the key component of the official submission to the Unicode Technical Committee for the 17 new characters.<br class="">* <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/slevinski/ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting" class="">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/slevinski/ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting</a><br class=""><br class="">Fourth, the Sutton SignWriting project is a nice collection of resources that explain and leverage the state of the art for using SignWriting online.<br class="">* <a href="https://slevinski.github.io/SuttonSignWriting/" class="">https://slevinski.github.io/SuttonSignWriting/</a><br class=""><br class="">2017 is going to be another great year for SignWriting. Warmest wishes to all.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">-Steve<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div>________________________________________________
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