SIGNBANK LESSONS: Adding Signs

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
January 19, 2003

TO ADD A SIGN....continued...
SignBank offers an important new feature: Dictionaries can be sorted by
Sign-Symbol-Sequence (SSS). To do this, SignBank needs to know the
"Sign-Spelling".

In review, we have already done this:
....added the sign...
....added the "spoken language spelling" (word definition)...
Now we must add the "Sign Language spelling" (SignSpelling)

TO ADD THE SIGNSPELLING...
7. What is the first symbol that starts this sign? It starts with the
Flat Hand with the thumb out. Scroll through the SSS to find that
symbol, and click on it.

8. The chosen symbol appears in the "Selected Symbol" box (Gewahltes
Symbol in German):

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