SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: SignWriting in SVG?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 16, 2003

Dear Guylhem, and everyone -
The SVG files that were generated by the Belgian programmers, Bart and
Steven, are based on one large folder that I posted on the web, filled
with 16,111 GIFs, that are the symbols stored in SymbolBank 2004...You
can download that folder anytime...That is what the Belgian team did,
and then they created the SVG...So yes...all BaseSymbols were included
in that folder...but please know everyone...I am not finished with the
SSS-2004...The SSS-2004 is not scheduled for release until March, 2004.
So the folder is only a portion of all the symbols...but I posted it so
the Belgian team would have something to test for SVG:

Download SSS-2004 (still under construction)
http://www.SignBank.org/downloads/sss2004.zip

Thank you once again, Steve and Bart, for the SVG. Now what do we do
with it? ;-)

Val ;-)

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On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 04:32 AM, Steven Aerts wrote:
> Our current version of the svg files is located at
> http://plantijn.ruca.ua.ac.be/~aertsbraem/download/svg.zip  in zip
> format
> (7.2 Mb) or at
> http://plantijn.ruca.ua.ac.be/~aertsbraem/download/svg.tar.bz2
> in .tar.bz2 format (1.3 Mb), but these files are automatically
> generated from
> the rather poorly detailed gifs.
> The problem is that these symbols need to be hand-optimised now. We
> don't have
> the time to do that. It's a rather easy job, but it involves a lot of
> symbols. We are thinking of a system to make it easier to work on those
> symbols with a lot of people simultaneously.
>
>>  - do you provide the 466 base symbols?
>>
> We have converted all symbols Valerie provided us with, we guess the
> base
> symbols are included too.
>
> Bart and Steven