PROGRAMMERS: Typing SignWriting in Vertical Columns...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 17, 2004

Hello Stephen and Everyone!
I am sorry for the delay...I started writing a new article explaining
all this, and I did not finish...I am trying to finish it! I keep
getting distracted by phone calls, and questions regarding other
issues...it is coming!  Val ;-)

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On Jun 17, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Stephen Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Val,
>
> Do you have a keyboard layout idea for implementing vertical columns
> with
> the 3 swim lanes?  Has the swim lanes idea been included in the new
> version
> of the SWML?
>
> I thought I would play a bit with the PUDL site and try to implement
> gloss
> translation with swim lanes.  My dictionary still doesn't center the
> head in
> the middle of the swim lanes, but my next dictionary will.
>
> An easy way to tell gloss where to put the sign is to use the greater
> or
> less than symbols.  So if a sign belongs in the middle, use the gloss
> name.
> If the sign belongs to the left, use the "<" symbol.  If the sign
> belongs to
> the right, use the ">" symbols.
>
> So attached is the translation of "there_2 <my <dog there >your >dog."
>
> The new code doesn't work for fingerspelling.  You can try it if you're
> interested at: www.pudl.info/dictionary/vcode.php
>
> -Stephen
> www.oculog.net
> <example.GIF>