[sw-l] ASL Maybe

Stuart Thiessen sw at PASSITONSERVICES.ORG
Tue Oct 19 17:42:35 UTC 2004


I think I may have encountered a bug in the movement arrow selections.
(Plus I am having trouble renaming the old versions). I was entering
the sign MAYBE into the dictionary because I think this is written
incorrectly. The current signs look like this:

A.
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   B.
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But the actual dynamics is simultaneous alternating action. So I think
it should be written like this: (but I'm not having much success saving
it to SignPuddle. Right now, Sign A above is displaying in the
dictionary as MAYBE, but when I load it, it looks the sign below, not
Sign A. So it seems the associations have gotten confused between the
composite sign and the build. Originally, sign A was maybe, sign B was
maybe_2.  So I renamed Sign B as maybe_3, and renamed Sign A as
maybe_2, and then planned to put the sign below as maybe but now it
seems to be all confused. What is the best approach for this?

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The bug that relates to the arrows is the fact that I cannot use mirror
images of the arrows themselves. I personally like to represent this as
the right hand going down and up and the left hand going up and down
with a simultaneous action (one arc instead of two). But SignPuddle
apparently doesn't have a mirror image of the arrows yet?

Thanks,

Stuart


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