[sw-l] Different SignWriting programs have different uses...

Thu Apr 28 17:23:39 UTC 2005

SignWriting List
April 28, 2005

 >Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
 >Let me tell you that I admire your work very , very much. I am so 
impressed – and though I still (ha ) teach how to use SW44  - 
SignPuddle has become >a very powerful tool to give first insight into 
the principles of “signconstruction” –

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Hello Everyone and Stefan!
Thank you for your kind words...I do my best, just as all our wonderful 
programmers do their best too. And you do your best too, as teachers 
and document writers!!

Each computer program has played an important role in SignWriting, and 
I use different programs for different purposes. I am glad you are 
skilled with SignWriter 4.4 in DOS, Stefan....Just because we use one 
program on the web for web interaction does not mean that we are 
throwing out other programs that can be used on your desktop...They all 
have value...I also know that programmers do not stop creating, just 
because we are happily learning what they created a year ago! So there 
will always be new developments and we just have to enjoy the roller 
coaster ride....!!

For me, I use SignWriter to type long documents. I use SignBank for 
SignSpellings, for sorting dictionaries by SSS and printing 
dictionaries for publications. And I use SignPuddle for my online 
communication, and for creating new signs for web use. And because I 
can drag and drop signs from SignPuddle into SignBank now, I am using 
SignPuddle for any time I need a png version of an individual sign...so 
that is perfect for SignBank...

The Flemish computer programmers, Bart Braem and Steven Aerts, have 
been very generous and have a program that they will be releasing the 
source code for...I am grateful to them for this and I look forward to 
seeing how we can use their program...For example, they can create pngs 
very fast from SignWriter DOS dictionaries and publish them directly on 
the web in dictionaries...plus a lot more...their Flemish Sign Language 
Dictionary is really great!

And Daniel Noelpp and Lars Majewski have such a hard job creating new 
versions of SignWriter DOS and Java...I admire them very much too!!

And without Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa and his computer programming 
students and co-workers in Brazil, we wouldn't have the original SWML 
or SW Edit or sooooo many wonderful Brazilian programs...and there are 
new programmers starting in Brazil too...!! smile...

OK...I am now going back to teaching both SignSpellings and also how to 
use the IMWA...the new Finger Movement Symbols...One of the important 
features of SignPuddle is that it is the only program that uses the 
IMWA right now, and I need it badly, because it helps me display the 
new symbols and then I can teach you all in a visual and simple 
way...Stephen Slevinski has really given the IMWA a stable base by 
using it in his SignMaker program...I hope someday that other computer 
programmers will use the IMWA...smile...

Val ;-)

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On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

>
> Hi Valerie and Stephen-
>  
> “..SignPuddle 2.0 will be faster than SignPuddle 1.0, is my guess. 
> Plus we are working on a desktop version of SignPuddle where you could 
> work offline...So perhaps Stephen Slevinksi can assist your group on 
> uploading it to your Italian server in the future....”
>
>  
> Let me tell you that I admire your work very , very much. I am so 
> impressed – and though I still (ha ) teach how to use SW44  - 
> SignPuddle has become a very powerful tool to give first insight into 
> the principles of “signconstruction” –
>  
> Hopefully SignWriter Tiger and SignWriter Python will give us teacher 
> a chance to type long documents with open ended dictionaries !!
>  
> .... and by the way Valerie – the way you explain all these things to 
> newcomers again, and again and again – wow – you are so patient and 
> friendly –
>  
> Stefan ;-))
>  
>  
>
> Von: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu 
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] Im Auftrag von Valerie 
> Sutton
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 17:31
> An: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Betreff: Re: [sw-l] ITALY...Use FireFox web browser for SignPuddle
>  
> SignWriting List
>  April 28, 2005
>
>  Barbara Pennacchi wrote:
> The slowness of signPuddle is due not only to users' connection speed, 
> but also to the "distance" between user and server.
>
>  SignPuddle 2.0 will be faster than SignPuddle 1.0, is my guess. Plus 
> we are working on a desktop version of SignPuddle where you could work 
> offline...So perhaps Stephen Slevinksi can assist your group on 
> uploading it to your Italian server in the future....
>
>  Plus you still have SignWriter DOS, SignWriter Java, SignWriter 
> Python and soon SignWriter Tiger, plus other programs that you can use 
> on your desktop right now...
>
>  But meanwhile you can still add a few signs into SignPuddle right 
> now, so we can discuss them on our SignWriting List...You have already 
> added two..so obviously it can be done....and it helps our discussions 
> on the SignWriting List...it is a good way to share the signs your are 
> concerned with writing...
>
>  So let us be glad for what we have, and that the future looks bright!
>
>  I would feel honored if your team in Rome would enjoy adding a few 
> signs to SignPuddle occasionally...You might find that some people 
> will really love it!
>
>  Val ;-)
>
>  Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
>  1. SignWritingSite
> http://www.SignWriting.org
>  Read & Write Sign Languages
>
>  2. SignBankSite
> http://www.SignBank.org
>  Sign Language Dictionaries
>
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