AW: [sw-l] Re: AUSTRALIA Sign for Australia - black line etc

[Bill Reese]

Does punctuation have to be sideways when doing columns?  Nothing else
seems to be turned that way.  In English an exclamation mark is still
vertical if written this way:
"Hey!"
or this way:
H
e
y
!

Bill



Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> June 2, 2005
>
> Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>
>> But it works so wonderfully. And I guess not only within the field
>> of deaf
>> education ;-))
>
>
> That is so great, Stefan! I am so happy that you have found this
> wonderful tool!
>
> I am just the symbol developper, and as you know, I do not teach Deaf
> children. As a symbol developer, I have had some problems when
> writing in vertical columns. Sometimes the Punctuation symbols and
> the Shoulder Lines look like each other when writing in vertical
> columns and there have been some mis-reading from users so I will add
> your Underline symbol to that group to see what I can do to make
> writing in vertical columns better...My job is to make sure that the
> symbols do not look like each other...and people will need to see the
> difference between your underlining line, and the end of a sentence
> punctuation, etc...which all are horizontal...
>
> Thanks for telling me - And I support your use of SignWriting 100 per
> cent!!
>
> Val ;-)
>
>