IMWA: Handshape Construction and Sequencing Rules

[Bill Reese]

If we are to name them, then shouldn't we be using SignWriting for the
names?  ;-)
I see a circular reference coming up here somewhere ...

Bill


Bart Braem wrote:

>>Bart, can you explain how the categories and sub-categories would be
>>coded without using numbers?
>>
>>
>
>Well, it would go like this: take the very first hand from
>http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0147-sss2004-Category1.pdf
>than I suggest not numbering it, but refering to it as the symbol with
>category: hand
>group: index finger
>symbolnumber: 1
>variation: a number
>fill: a number or maybe even better: a logical name: filled, empty, ...
>rotation: a number between 0 and 360 (but not 360 for clarity)
>
>How the pictures are named then is the same to us, a directory structure for
>the groups and categories could do we think, it would reflect the tree
>structure just fine. Hope this makes our proposition all a little more clear.
>
>Bart & Steven
>--
>Woordenboek Vlaamse Gebarentaal
>http://gebaren.ugent.be
>
>
>
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