<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="">November 19, 2020</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Rubens Almeida, Yair Rand, Adam Frost, Steve Slevinski, Jonathan Duncan, Rich Gleaves and the research group in Santa Catarina, Brazil!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What a pleasure to hear from you, Rubens. Your LIBRAS SignWriting projects, and Wikipedia articles in LIBRAS using the RAND Keyboard, are an inspiration to me and so many around the world. Thank you for our continued communication.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are actually several different Keyboards designed to type SignWriting symbols, however, in this message, I will focus on the RAND Keyboard:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Wikipedia articles can be written in SignWriting with the RAND Keyboard. For example, here are two examples of articles in Wikipedia written with the RAND Keyboard. One article is Brazilian and one is Tunisian (must be viewed on a computer):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">LIBRAS</div><div class=""><a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/bzs/AS14c10S14c0aS2490cM527x536S14c10491x465S2490c508x500S14c0a473x500" class="">https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/bzs/AS14c10S14c0aS2490cM527x536S14c10491x465S2490c508x500S14c0a473x500</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TUNISIAN SIGN LANGUAGE</div><div class=""><a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tse/M537x541S30a00482x483S33e00482x483S16c48479x461S18551504x460S18535510x522S29a04522x482S37a0a456x470S3770d456x510" class="">https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tse/M537x541S30a00482x483S33e00482x483S16c48479x461S18551504x460S18535510x522S29a04522x482S37a0a456x470S3770d456x510</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The RAND Keyboard was developed by Yair Rand, first presented at the SignWriting Symposium 2015. Plus there were updates in 2016. Thank you Yair!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are some important links:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Use the RAND Keyboard on the Web:</div><div class=""><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;" class=""><a href="https://swkb-35431.firebaseapp.com/" class="">https://swkb-35431.firebaseapp.com/</a></span></font><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The version without the plaintext options:</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;" class=""><a href="https://swkb-35431.firebaseapp.com/plain.html" class="">https://swkb-35431.firebaseapp.com/plain.html</a></span></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">SignWriting Symposium Presentation 41:</div><div class="">"The Javascript-based SignWriting Keyboard for Use on Wikipedia and throughout the Web” by Yair Rand</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="">Instruction Manual #1 for the RAND Keyboard by Dali Balti</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs12/sw1178_RAND_Keyboard_For_SignWriting_Instruction_Manual_Dali_Balti.pdf" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs12/sw1178_RAND_Keyboard_For_SignWriting_Instruction_Manual_Dali_Balti.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Instruction Manual #2 for the RAND Keyboard</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs12/sw1185_RAND_SignWriting_Keyboard_Instruction_Manual_Rand_Balti_Sutton_2016.pdf" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs12/sw1185_RAND_SignWriting_Keyboard_Instruction_Manual_Rand_Balti_Sutton_2016.pdf</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the web, Yair’s email address is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Yair Rand</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">August 30, 2016</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;" class=""><a href="mailto:yyairrand@gmail.com" title="Contact" target="_self" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;" class="">yyairrand@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As far as I know, the RAND Keyboard is still functional but maybe Adam and I and others can test it to see? Can you help, Adam?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you again, Yair, for your generous gift of a keyboard, which has been used to write many articles in Wikipedia and it works on the web too...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS. Next message I will tell you about other keyboards for SignWriting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-----------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 19, 2020, at 6:56 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=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">Hi Valerie, Adam and
Steve,<span class=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">and also to all members
of the SignWriting List!<span class=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">The research group in
Santa Catarina - Brazil, needs your support to explain the following questions
that will help direct research related to the use of the specific keyboard for
Libras Writing by the SignWriting system:<span class=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">1) Is the SignWriting
RAND keyboard functional?<span class=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">2) Is it possible to
type SignWriting more quickly and quickly using the RAND keyboard than other
software?<span class=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">3) Is the keyboard in
question still active? If so, are there reports of people using it to write
Wikipedia articles in written sign languages? How many can you measure?<span class=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">4) In addition to
Wikipedia, is it possible to use the SignWriting RAND keyboard in another
virtual environment, websites? Or install it on the computer for producing
texts in SignWriting? As in Microsoft programs?<span class=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">5) How to learn to use
the SignWriting RAND keyboard? Are there courses? Or teaching materials for
this purpose?<span class=""></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 12pt 0cm 0cm; line-height: 107%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class=""><span class=""> </span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif" class="">We thank you for your
attention and support.<span class=""></span></span></p>
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