<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">November 16, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Steve!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">WOW!! Congratulations! This is so exciting and we will keep our fingers crossed!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What an impressive accomplishment all around!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">------------------<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 16, 2017, at 3:35 PM, Stephen Slevinski <<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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2017 has been a great year for Sutton SignWriting and we're not done
yet.<br class="">
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Today, I received excellent news regarding a grant to fund the Two-D
font for SignWriting.<br class="">
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/slevinski/ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/slevinski/ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting</a><br class="">
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This proposal has been recommended for due diligence review.</b><p class="">The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary
assessment of your proposal and recommended it for due diligence
review. This means that a majority of the committee reviewers
favorably assessed this proposal and have requested further
investigation by Wikimedia Foundation staff.</p><p class="">--------------------------------<br class="">
*<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/slevinski/ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting#Round_2_2017_Aggregated_feedback_from_the_committee_for_ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/slevinski/ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting#Round_2_2017_Aggregated_feedback_from_the_committee_for_ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting</a></p><p class="">The grant will be announced on Dec 14th, so fingers crossed.</p><p class="">Regardless if the grant is approved, it is a good sign that "a
majority of the committee reviewers favorably assessed this
proposal".</p><p class="">I'm very happy with Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW). Stable
since 2012, it will always be available and useful.<br class="">
</p><p class="">Going forward, we're ready to move to a new character set:
SignWriting in Unicode (SWU). First published in July 2017, SWU
is the final specification for naming signs. It is 100% FSW
compatible with easy bi-directional conversions.<br class="">
</p><p class="">It is already an improvement over FSW without the Two-D font.
While SWU still looks like data, it is better than FSW. FSW
doesn't look like sign language at all. Consider this sign
written in both formats.<br class="">
</p><p class=""><span id="cid:part1.F5C371C6.5928525D@signpuddle.net"><pnkonfppdclgcgpe.png></span></p><p class=""><br class="">
</p><p class="">The above image is from SignMaker 2017 with the FSW view option
enabled. By default, SignMaker 2017 will only display the SWU at
a larger size.<br class="">
</p><p class=""><span id="cid:part2.301BF4AC.53BD05EA@signpuddle.net"><mppjbglbcigkkebb.png></span></p><p class=""><br class="">
</p><p class="">SWU is meant to be used in edit fields, applications, databases,
and URLs. The One-D font is available for SWU and the text looks
like the examples above. It still requires SVG for proper
viewing. When the Two-D font is available, the SWU characters
will not look like a visual string, but the signs will look like
signs.</p><p class="">Before the end of 2017, I plan to release an update of the Sutton
SignWriting project and SignMaker 2017 with full SWU support.
2018 will be a year of transition to the new standard of SWU.
2019 will be a year of growth with SWU and the Two-D font.</p><p class="">These two changes are disruptive, but very beneficial.<br class="">
1) Character update - FSW to SWU<br class="">
2) Viewer update - SVG to Two-D font</p><p class="">Better tools and software are on the way. Thanks for your
support and patience.<br class="">
</p><p class="">Regards,<br class="">
-Steve<br class="">
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