<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">SignWriting List</div><div class="">October 4, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Honza, and everyone on the SW List -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What a lovely online dictionary. Congratulations, Honza, and to all of your team in the Czech Republic, and also I do remember that you and your team have been working on this dicitonary for many years… It looks great and thank you for providing the world with this resource.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I like the format and it is working for me. I know the others have provided feedback about their experiences, and that is good that you asked. For me, when I go to:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dictio.info/" class="">https://www.dictio.info/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">for the first time, on Chrome, on my iMac desktop computer, I get the English user interface automatically. So it is quite easy for me to use the dictionary immediately. I see there are other language choices in the top right corner, but in my case I do not need to change languages.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I love the choices of languages in the dictionary itself too - for example, here is a screen capture of one of the signs that I found for CZJ (Czech Sign Language):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="BC4DA9A6-8A86-49BC-94D2-B4F86E0E1602" width="480" height="542" src="cid:3D07A740-EF2F-4995-9274-43EABB11564C" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 4, 2022, at 2:22 AM, Honza Fikejs <<a href="mailto:honza.fikejs@gmail.com" class="">honza.fikejs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello Steve, Val and the list!<br class=""><br class="">I am very glad, you have written about the dictionary, we have been working on for almost 20 years now on Masaryk University (Brno, Czechia)!<br class="">It contains several spoken and several sign languages that are important for people living in central europe.<br class="">I believe I have already shared some details about this project in the past, but this way of sharing makes me more happy. <br class=""><br class="">The reason why we use SignWriting besides videos is that once you know a basics of SignWriting, you don't have to play each video to get an overview of the content.<br class=""><br class="">I will be glad if you have any feedback about the site or content.<br class="">Anyway if you open the site <a href="http://dictio.info" class="">http://dictio.info</a> for the first time, do you get the english interface or not?<br class="">The site should set the interface language automatically depending on your location.<br class=""><br class="">Honza<br class="">_____________________<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 6:22 PM Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" class="">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">SignWriting List<br class="">September 27, 2022<br class=""><br class="">Hi Steve -<br class="">I am so glad you re-explained this to me and everyone here on the SignWriting List. This is a major accomplishment, Steve, giving others the chance to work with SignWriting in a new and better way. Thank you for this development.<br class=""><br class="">So for those who are creating your own sites and programs, Steve has developed tools for you to use that make it faster and also more standardized around the world… if I understand it correctly, this new dictionary site is using:<br class=""><br class="">the Sutton SignWriting packages<br class="">which help people develop new applications for SignWriting.<br class=""><br class="">Go to:<br class="">https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/#production<br class=""><br class="">Steve explains below its benefits -<br class=""><br class="">So glad programmers and designers have found your new work, Steve!<br class=""><br class="">Val ;-)<br class=""><br class="">------------<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Sep 27, 2022, at 8:47 AM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Val,<br class=""><br class="">The dictionary is beautiful, I agree. I was looking a little deeper into the site and I was happy to see that they are using the @sutton-signwriting/font-db package.<br class="">* https://sign.dictio.info<br class=""><br class="">The major benefit of using this package is that they can add new SignWriting using text rather than having to create and upload new images. In a practical sense, the sign I linked in my original message requires 0.086 KB of text opposed to an 8 KB image. The images are generated as needed, so any sign that can be written with Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) is possible.<br class=""><br class="">I'm glad the new Sutton SignWriting packages are helping people develop new applications for SignWriting.<br class="">* https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/#production<br class=""><br class="">Very cool!<br class="">-Steve<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_________<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">On 9/27/22 10:09 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">SignWriting List<br class="">September 27, 2022<br class=""><br class="">Hi Steve and everyone!<br class=""><br class="">This is a beautiful new dictionary using video and SignWriting to write the videos, and I believe this is from Masaryk University, which is in the Czech Republic… Thank you to everyone invovled. It is gorgeous. Thanks Steve for telling us about it…<br class=""><br class="">Here is a screen capture of one of the screens<br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:18380346aced323f7551"><Screen%20Shot%202022-09-27%20at%208.08.31%20AM.png></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:18380346acf728370c2"><Valerie_Signature_5.jpg></span><br class="">Val ;-)<br class=""><br class="">__________<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Sep 27, 2022, at 6:40 AM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi SignWriting List,<br class=""><br class="">Interesting site I found yesterday that uses SignWriting: https://www.dictio.info<br class=""><br class="">It is a "Multilingual dictionary focused on sign languages" with 158,357 entries and 53,970 translations. Reading the about page, it's been around for many years.<br class=""><br class="">Looking at the SignWriting images, they are using Formal SignWriting in ASCII and the style string. Very cool.<br class="">https://sign.dictio.info/fsw/sign/png/M531x653S16c26510x588S2880d505x618S2880b507x567S14c20487x532S18520480x638S34c00482x483-CG_white_<br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:18380346ad05655f4a63"><M531x653S16c26510x588S2880d505x618S2880b507x567S14c20487x532S18520480x638S34c00482x483-CG_white_.png></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-Steve<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></body></html>________________________________________________
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