<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">April 28, 2020</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, Steve, for the extensive history of the ISWA 2010, which was a big undertaking at the time and the ISWA 2010 is now established in software programs around the world.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let's explore the "easy way" to add a few new handshapes first - without changing existing software as much as possible.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for thinking of it - </div><div 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 Apr 28, 2020, at 11:38 AM, Steve Slevinski <<a href="mailto:slevinski@SIGNWRITING.ORG" class="">slevinski@SIGNWRITING.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Profo Rubens Almeida,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for pushing forward. We are truly blessed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The history of the ISWA 2010 extends back to 1986. You can read more here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://steveslevinski.me/#standard2010" class="">https://steveslevinski.me/#standard2010</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In principle, Valerie and I both support the inclusion of additional hand shapes. We can easily support a dozen new hand shapes. More than that and things become complicated. I will need to do a statistical analysis of our current texts to see how many additional hand shapes we can fit the easy way. The easy way could be available in the current SignPuddle and SignMaker software as soon as the new fonts are ready.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you really need over 30 hand shapes, then things might become more complicated. We would need to add an extension mechanism to the ISWA. This would not be available in the current software without significant work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again for this work.</div><div class="">-Steve</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 28, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Profo Rubens Almeida <<a href="mailto:rubens.escritadesinais@gmail.com" class="">rubens.escritadesinais@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">Link to access the Public
Consultation platform:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class=""><a href="https://doity.com.br/registro-das-configuracoes-de-mao-da-libras" style="color:blue" class="">https://doity.com.br/registro-das-configuracoes-de-mao-da-libras</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">Link to access the presentation
video accessible in Libras, Portuguese and English:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ccb1-ONsU" style="color:blue" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ccb1-ONsU</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">Link to access the pdf books:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;break-after:auto;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)" class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs13/sw1242_BR_INVENTARIO_DAS_CM_ELS_SW_Prof_Rubens_Almeida_04252020.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:blue" class=""><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs13/sw1242_BR_INVENTARIO_DAS_CM_ELS_SW_Prof_Rubens_Almeida_04252020.pdf</span></a></span></p><div style="margin: 5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; break-after: auto; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;break-after:auto;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs10/sw0935_SignWriting_Hand_Symbols_ISWA2010_Sutton_Frost_2014.pdf" style="color:blue" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs10/sw0935_SignWriting_Hand_Symbols_ISWA2010_Sutton_Frost_2014.pdf</a></span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;break-after:auto;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><br class=""></p><div class=""><span id="cid:ii_k9k2xqj30" class=""><CAPA YOUTUBE - CONSULTA PÚBLICA.png></span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">The goals of the present research are to
investigate, share, collect and register the Handshapes (HS) of the Brazilian
Sign Language (LIBRAS) to the modality Writing of LIBRAS by the system
SignWriting. It is about a proposal to complement the International Alphabet of
SignWriting proposed by Valerie Sutton and Adam Frost in 2010.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">This initiative originated from the need to remedy
the lack of many graphemes (symbols) of Writing of LIBRAS-SignWriting,
referring to LIBRAS’ Handshapes (HS) in the main software of textual
production, transcription, and registration of LIBRA’s written form by the
SignWriting system, such as SignPuddle and SignMaker software, among others
developed by the Programmer and System Analyst Steve Slevinsky. This research
is exceptionally relevant for the deaf Brazilian community because the majority
of published works produced in LIBRAS’ written modality for the deaf public are
developed through a computational system. That means, specific software is used
that allows textual production of LIBRAS through the SignWriting system.
Despite that, this software does not englobe all graphemes (symbols) of the
SignWriting system referring to the graphic representation of LIBRAS’ HS,
entailing in its turn, difficulties for writers, translators and researchers in
this sense.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">we propose the application of the second step which
we developed in the form of a Public Consultation on an online platform. This
involves sharing the present study with society as a whole, especially with the
deaf Brazilian community that uses the LIBRAS’ written modality through the
SignWriting system. In this process, we hope to incite many people to share
other HS that, until now, are not present in this inventory or in the proposed
inventory by Sutton & Frost either, the latter who is also available for
consultation on the platform.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">Therefore, the expected result with this study is
that the investigated and catalogued HS by the collaborative work done through
public consultation and its respective registers in this research are that they
are evaluated and validated by the system’s inventor, Valerie Sutton and her
team, to posteriorly be implemented in the main software of textual production,
transcription, and registration of LIBRAS’ written form by the SignWriting
system. In this perspective, all the Brazilian users of the Written Sign
Language through the SignWriting system will be able to do any production in
reference of the Handshapes, that means, without any preoccupations with the
Handshape that will be used because there won’t be any past barrier that forced
its users to take alternative means to do so.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">To each Libras user,</span> <span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">please
send any handshape.</span> <span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-weight:normal" class="">We appreciate it.</span></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""></span><span class=""></span><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1iWimuKrTLbjU4PGXkescE5gucg2F9OHT&revid=0B68wLEcvWKqgSjF6U3ROSEhKL042eENmZ2lCaUNUZExIMDVZPQ" width="420" height="252" class=""><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1CG3M-_06Je5AfDBKMaIaMP2napNeYjYg&revid=0B68wLEcvWKqgU3lOR0FTZkdtRDdjY1l1Wmtibkg5SVJUUnNVPQ" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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