AW: Symmetry of the Full Circle

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 16, 2003

Dear SW List, Daniel, Charles, Stefan and Bill!
Thanks all of you, for your suggestions. I am not changing any symbols 
right now, I assure you! And thanks for your idea about the arc, Bill 
and Charles...You are right that would be easier to write than the 
knuckles...Unfortunately that symbol with the arc means something else 
in DanceWriting, but I suppose I could throw it out of 
DanceWriting...but you can see why I must go on with other work 
now...we can go round and round and I will never get to finishing 
SignBank and SymbolBank...but I will remember your input for later - 
many thanks once again...Val ;-)


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On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 07:51 AM, Bill Reese wrote:

> Val,
> I'd like to jump in here with an observation.  Rather than show 
> knuckles for that side of the hand would it be possible to just show 
> an arc in the square and a line in the circle?  See attached.
> Bill
>
> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
> SignWriting List
> October 16, 2003
>
> Stefan Woehrmann wrote:
>
> I am really sooooooooooooo impressed. I am sorry that I cannot
> contribute
> anything in this field of software - programming- But if it comes down
> to
> questions on how we use SW44 or in case of basic spelling questions I
> will
> be happy to support you in this so important task to switch typing SW
> from
> DOS to s.th different that will run without trouble  (crossed fingers)
> under
> XP, Win2000  etc.
>
>
> Hello Stefan!
> Great to hear from you, and I only wish we were at the stage where we
> could discuss spelling signs again! But Daniel and I are discussing
> symbols, not signs, because when Rich Gleaves did some special
> programming inside SignWriter DOS, to try to take care of the Circle
> Hand's palm facing glitches, no special programming could solve it,
> without the handshape itself changing its look...So let me ask you a
> question from a signer's and teacher's perspective....Would this help
> you, to read signs, if we changed the Circle Hand symbol, and the
> square for a fist too, to look like this? (see attached GIF)... Which
> do you like better?..adding the knuckles gives us all the palm facings
> clearly...but it does add more to write by hand...and I don't want to
> add these knuckles to all 100 handshapes...and that could be another
> problem...it may start to change all the handshapes, if we make this
> one change...I have not made any decisions yet...If we can keep the
> symbols as they are, it would be better, if Daniel can find a way to
> program it...Val ;-)
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