SW-Edit Software from Brazil

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 16, 2004

Dear SW List, Antonio Carlos, and Stuart!
This is such a positive message, Stuart. I am sooo glad you like
SW-Edit. Let me explain what has been happening behind the scenes last
night. Antonio Carlos wrote to me with English instructions...and I
promised to create a manual creating screen shots following his
instructions...

I am glad you found a way to change the languages...that was one of the
instructions Antonio Carlos gave me, and you are smarter than I am,
Stuart! I couldn't find it! If you create instructions too, we can
combine our manuals, or we can provide two separate manuals with the
software.

Antonio Carlos agreed to let us place a link from the SignWriting web
site downloads page, to download SW-Edit from his site, and gave
instructions on credits etc for the program. So I will update our
downloads page shortly, with a link to downloading SW-Edit...

The download will be absolutely free. And, if people write personally
to Antonio Carlos, you will be able to receive the source code as well.
Antonio Carlos is traveling for three weeks, and may not be able to
help us until returning, but that gives us time to create the
manuals...

And to explain about new features...If I understand it correctly, the
student-programmer who created SW-Edit, with Antonio Carlos, was named
Rafael, and Rafael has now graduated and moved on to other things. So
the program will probably not be programmed further by Rafael, so for
those who might be interested in changes or new features, maybe with
the source code, others can improve it?

I will write again with a link to my new PDF of the manual, when it is
ready, and maybe Stuart, you can give me feedback!

And be sure to follow the vertical columns messages coming, because
they are important to programmers...

Val ;-)

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On Jun 16, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> Hi! I downloaded the software and played with it a little.  It is an
> impressive piece of software, Antonio. It is clear you have put a lot
> of
> time and thought into it. I like it. I have a friend who wanted
> something like this but he only has Mac OS X. I noticed you used
> wXWindows to compile it. Can it be ported to X11 so that Mac OS X and
> Linux and other systems that can use X11 can use your software?  Just
> wondering.
>
> I figured out how to change the words from Portuguese to English for
> the
> toolbar tips.  I also figured out how to print and how to cut and paste
> to another program as a graphic without going through a screen print.
> Very helpful for direct copy and paste! I have it installed on a
> different computer than this one, so I will have to figure out how to
> transfer to the screen shots to this PC so I can email the instructions
> I figured out.
>
> One other interesting feature is the right mouse button.  I haven't had
> a chance to explore the options on that menu, but it looks like there
> are more features there.
>
> Antonio, two questions though ...
>
> 1) Is it possible to change the paper type within the program or will
> it
> reformat the page when I change paper type within my print driver? I
> noticed it was for non-US paper types. I know that works best for those
> outside the US. Being the odd birds here :-D, how do we set the
> printing
> to US paper?
>
> 2) Is there a way to import existing SGN documents to SW-Edit format?
>
> Thanks for letting us use it in beta form. It looks like it will be a
> help already.
>
> Stuart
>
> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> June 15, 2004
>>
>> Dear SW List Members and Antonio Carlos:
>> I have started the first five pages of the SW-Edit Reference Manual,
>> in
>> PDF format. I have no choice, because I want to use the program
>> myself,
>> and I have to teach myself how to use it...Please read the document to
>> see if it is correct, and then please give us English
>> instruction...just a list of what to do next in English and then I
>> will
>> try doing that, and create more of the manual as I go...To download
>> what I have now, go to:
>>
>> SW-Edit Reference Manual
>> http://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0166-SW-Edit-Manual.pdf
>>
>> Can you translate all of the Portuguese words that are available to
>> tell people what the icons mean? Then I can explain that in the
>> manual,
>> giving people the English names for the icons...without that it is
>> hard
>> to use for people who do not know Portuguese.
>>
>> So at the end of the manual I have the sign for HELLO in the center of
>> the Sign Box. What I can I now do with it? We look forward to your
>> instruction!
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>