[sw-l] Parkhurst phrase symbols

[Stuart Thiessen]

If you look at my flyer for our SignWriting class, it has an example of
how I understood your Unit-Connecting Line.  As a side note, while I
prefer the vertical approach, when I am doing something quick and
simple, I tend to use SW DOS to create my documents ... for now. If I
am doing something more permanent, then I tend to compose the document
using the vertical approach.

Anyway, here is an example of what I mean for the Unit-Connecting Line
....

Stuart

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On Mar 13, 2005, at 13:32, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> March 13, 2005
>
> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>> Wonderful!  Thanks!  :)
>> Do you find it makes a difference if you connect the lines or don't
>> connect the lines but use them like brackets [ ... ]
>
> Hi Stuart and Everyone -
> Look at this diagram below. I went into SignMaker and constructed
> three lines that are used in our writing system:
>
> 1. Unit-Connecting LIne
> 2. Smooth Connecting Line
> 3. Time Acceleration Lines
>
> 1. The Unit Connecting LIne has been used by the Parkhursts in Madrid,
> to write the influence of facial expressions on phrases, I believe,
> but only when writing horiztonally. Then, Dr. Penny Boyes Bream
> applied a similar theory to writing in vertical columns, using the
> Unit Connecting LIne to show the influence of one facial expression on
> a series of signs...This was published in the German-Swiss Sign
> Language books Noah and David and Goliath, written in SignWriting and
> published - they are beautiful books!!
>
> 2. The Smooth Connecting LIne has been used mostly in DanceWriting
> under the 5-lined staff, but one group used it for SignWriting...the
> National Technical Institute for the Deaf's pulbications on technical
> signs uses the Smooth Connecting LIne under a group of
> illustrations...
>
> 3. And the Time Acceleration is placed above the sentence to show
> timing...
>
> To answer your question about using only the side brackets and not
> bother to connect them?...We have never done that, but it is worth a
> try! If it works for you, show us a sample....
>
> One precaution...Curved Parentheses around an entire sign means the
> entire sign is seen from the back...so if you do  not connect the
> brackets, be sure to make them right-angle straight-lined brakets, and
> not curved...Val ;-)
>
>
> <Unit-Lines.gif>