PROGRAMMERS: Typing SignWriting in Vertical Columns...

[Charles Butler]

I can immediately think of a use for the lanes in dictionary preparation.  If one starts with the center, then both left and right hands are equal in preference in writing a sign.  A dictionary could, and should, I think, have both "leftie" and "rightie" versions of signs, at least in a complete form so that one can look up signs by their articulation on the "primary hand" not necessarily left or right.  One of the SW students I was helping to teach in Brazil was left-handed, so we had to emphasize, "write your own hands" a lot to help him clearly right left-handed signs, and distinguish them from right-handed signs.

This was also a lot of my editing work in Brazil was to make sure that the hand shown in writing was the correct hand as often the typing had not been carefully reviewed and one often had two "right hands" in a sign showing both hands in use.

Valerie Sutton <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG> wrote:
SignWriting List
June 17, 2004

SIGNWRITING IN VERTICAL COLUMNS continued...Please see attached:




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