[sw-l] Parkhurst phrase symbols

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 15, 2005

Stuart - I will re-write your first sentence and show you different
ways that the Unit-Connecting Line can be applied...the thread name
will change to Unit-Connecting LIne...next message ...;-))

Val ;-)

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On Mar 14, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> 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
>
> <SWClassSpring2005.pdf>
>
> 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>