[sw-l] signmail question

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 4, 2005

Hello Everyone!
Thanks for this message, Anny....When you type the word-glosses in the
email program on SignPuddle, you have to type each gloss carefully to
make sure it matches exactly the same as the sign is listed in the
dictionary. So all caps has to be used, if the sign is listed with all
caps in the dictionary. And if you want the second version of a sign,
then you have to type the version number, such as HELLO_2...otherwise
the program doesn't know which sign to grab for the SignWriting
translation...If you type a gloss and there is no exact word-gloss like
that in the dictionary, then it reverts to the fingerspelling symbols
you entered and spells out the entire gloss-word...If you do not have
all your fingerspelling symbols as entries in the dictionary, then it
cannot replace a gloss with fingerspelling and there will be a question
mark for that one gloss when the SignWriting appears...smile....Val ;-)

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On Apr 3, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:

> here's another trial for this mail that didn't reach the list...
>
> Anny
>> thanks for solving the problem (I didn't realise  that!!) and for
>> your help
>>
>> with the group of SignWriters... here in the french speaking par tof
>> Switzerland... we've decided to save all the "noms propres" (do we
>> say proper names???) with capital letters... : so nouns of persons,
>> towns, geographic names, ... will all be written with capital
>> letters...
>>
>> all other words should be written in lower case...!
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>> talk to you soon
>>
>> Anny
>>
>>
>> Le 2 avr. 05, à 18:45, Valerie Sutton a écrit :
>>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> April 2, 2005
>>>
>>> I figured it out, Anny! It has to do with capital letters. The sign
>>> for SUISSE is in capital letters, but if you do the lower case
>>> letters...suisse...then it comes out as fingerspelling...That is
>>> because you saved the sign for SUISSE with capital letters in your
>>> dictionary before...Take a look at my example...the first word is
>>> lower case, and the second with capital letters...so if you want the
>>> lower case to come in as a real sign, you will need to save it in
>>> lower case in your dictionary entry...
>>>
>>>
>>> <FingerspellingCH-fr2.gif>
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