[sw-l] Signs in living color

[Stephen Slevinski]

Stuart,

Flagging signs without build files has been needed for a long time.

How about I make them bold and/or italic on the search screen?

-Stephen
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  That makes sense, since you have no build data on those signs. I wonder if
it would help the editors of those dictionaries if there was a way to
quickly identify signs that are still image-only? Then when we are browsing
the dictionary and notice a sign that is marked as image only, we could edit
it as we notice it?

  Am I correct in assuming that you do a filename search when you prepare a
sign listing? If so, could you modify the sign listing script such that for
all matching signs, it does a quick check to see if an equivalent build file
is present? Then it could mark signs without a build file with an asterisk
(*) or some other symbol to indicate an image-only sign. That may be helpful
anyway if for example a build file for some reason gets deleted or
something, then you'd have a way to know that a new build file is needed for
that sign?

  What do you think?

  Stuart

  On Feb 10, 2005, at 16:44, Stephen Slevinski wrote:


    Hi Stuart,


    The short answer is yes.  Signs could be colored when pulling from the
dictionary.  I would only need some rules to apply.


    However, 2 dictionaries still have many signs that are images only:
sgn-US (ASL) and sgn-DE.  Image only signs can not be loaded into SignMaker.
Neither could image only signed be colored.


    -Stephen

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    Cool!

    Could it be possible, instead of saving color to the dictionary, to
apply color to the sign when pulling from the dictionary? Or alternatively,
for teaching purposes, could it be possible to have a way to assign colors
to different categories of symbols (i.e., handshapes, contact, face, etc.)
and then it would color the sign appropriately? That might be a handy tool
for teachers or people developing teaching materials?

    Just some thoughts.

    Stuart
    On Feb 10, 2005, at 16:14, Stephen Slevinski wrote:


    Hi list,


    Trying to solve a problem with transparency, I found out how to color
symbols.


    I put this into SignMaker for international signs.  You can play around
and tell me what you think.

    http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-WO/create.php


    Pressing the Color special command will popup a window where you can
pick a color for the selected symbol.


    NOTE:

    The symbols loose their color when saving to the dictionary.  However,
if people find this usefull, I can update the script that saves the sign to
the dictionary so that the signs include color.


    -Stephen

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