Query on Sign Documents

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 29, 2005

No it is not trivial...that is for sure! But one good way to begin  
are the SignSpelling features that you are adding to SignPuddle 2.0.  
Once the person who enters the signs into SignPuddle establishes the  
sort order for each SignSpelling, then we could perhaps search on  
signs with that spelling-sort-order....someday?  Val ;-)

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On Aug 29, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> I do not know of any true sign documents on the web at this time.   
> I believe the best way to accomplish this would use XML to store  
> the data and XLT to display the data.  A while back, someone posted  
> an XLT for SWML-S 1.0.  It worked in Firefox, but I think that's  
> about it.
>
> I believe we have two problems that need to be addressed.  The  
> first problem is displaying the signs in the browsers.  This will  
> probably require plug-in development.  The second problem is sign  
> matching.  I believe a few papers have been written on this topic.   
> It is not trivial.
>
> for what it's worth,
> -Steve
>
> Charles Butler wrote:
>
>
>> Can one yet make a sign document on the Web, and save it as a true  
>> document, so that it can be searched for signs, like a word  
>> processor?  Right now, we are still limited to signs with word-to- 
>> word translation.
>>  Charles
>>
>> */Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>/* wrote:
>>
>>     SignWriting List
>>     August 27, 2005
>>
>>     The SignMail program in SignPuddle (that let's us send email in
>>     SignWriting), can be used as a document-creating program too. For
>>     example, Nana from the Philippines sent the Filipino song as an
>>     email. Then I created a screen capture from the email and posted
>>     the screen-capture on the web:
>>
>>
>>>     http://www.signwriting.org/philippines/philippines03.html
>>>
>>
>>
>>     You can also do this with the Translate program in SignPuddle.
>>     Take a screen capture once the translation is done, and that
>>     screen capture can become the document...
>>
>>     One of many ways to use SignPuddle!
>>
>>     Thank you, Steve, for all these features...
>>
>>     SignPuddle
>>     http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
>>     <http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle>
>>
>>
>>     Val ;-)
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