SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: SignWriting in SVG?

[Dan Parvaz]

Of course, once we have SVG, we ought to be able to convert to postscript,
METAPOST, or anything else that strikes our fancy. in theory, material
written in SWML + judicially-applied XSL templates should give us
documents in everything from XHTML to PDF...

.... which makes my heart go pitter-pat :-)

-Dan.


 On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> 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 ;-)
>
> --------------------------------------
>
>
> 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
>