SymbolBank complete for 2002!

[Charles Butler]

Congratulations.  I know it is exhausting work.  Now
that I have a little extra room on my computer, I'm
hoping to install filemaker.

Charles Butler

--- Valerie Sutton <Sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> September 25, 2002
>
> Dear SignWriting List members:
> For the past 2 months I have been entering thousands
> of tiny GIFs
> into SymbolBank. I am writing to tell you that an
> hour ago I finished
> entering all of the Symbol Gifs for SSS-2002!
>
> There are 425 BaseSymbols in SSS-2002. Those 425
> symbols have
> rotations and flops. The hands also have palm facing
> and the arrows
> have dark or light arrowheads for right or left
> movement. Those are
> called "Fills" in our computer terminology. So there
> are lots of
> little details necessary to make each symbol work in
> SignBank.
>
> So in total, the exact number of GIFs in SymbolBank:
> 15,814.
>
> That's almost 16,000!
>
> Of course there will always be more symbols to add,
> and there will
> always be different opinions as to which Sequence
> will work the best,
> but now at least, we have a "place to start".
>
> I hope to post SignBank 2002 for download on the web
> on October 1st.
> It will be free for now, but you will need FileMaker
> Pro 5.0 or later
> to run it.
>
> Perhaps you all would enjoy lessons in how to add
> signs into
> SignBank? I will be happy to teach those lessons to
> the SignWriting
> List, if you wish, starting October 1st...I will
> wait to hear if
> there are interested List members...
>
> Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
> --
> Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
> SignWritingSite
> http://www.SignWriting.org
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>
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>
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>
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> http://www.MovementWriting.org
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>
> Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting
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> an educational nonprofit organization
> Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA
> tel: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020


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