[sw-l] TrueType formatting for SignWriting symbols...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 22, 2004

  Bill Reese wrote:
> Now I'm curious to see how a sign, like say ... "house", could be 
> italicised.  Is there examples?  From the days of  handwriting signs?


Hello Bill -
Go to this web page:

http://www.signwriting.org/catalog/sw214.html

Download the ASL font for Windows. Install it. Start a document. Change 
to the Sutton font and start typing fingerspelling. Then highlight what 
you typed, and choose different font formatting...Attached is an 
example...I chose the outline format and the SignWriting was 
automatically made hollow and outlined...I can see that we did not 
build in the italics for those specific fonts, but if the TrueType is 
sophisticated enough, then italics are designed as a part of the 
font...it is just a matter of time before that will be a normal choice 
when typing SignWriting...Stefan...do your fonts include the italics, 
bold, outline and other formats?  Val ;-)


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