[sw-l] Adding Classifiers to SignPuddle Dictionaries

[Nancy Emery]

that will be very cool in future when that is possible, Stephen!  you are
right, I am interested in being able to modify for temporary uses - because
a classifier construction is like packing a whole sentence into the space of
a sign, and there are too many possible classifier-sentences to put them all
in the dictionary.  When that feature is possible I may use Signmaker for
transcribing videos, since I can't print from SW Java now anyhow, I can just
as well make a screen capture of an e-mail as of a SW Java page.

for now it seems like putting the classifier handshapes in, using the CL:3
style notation, makes sense just to let people know what they are, even if
they can't use them directly from the dictionary.

Nancy

on 3/15/05 3:41 PM, Stephen Slevinski at slevinski at signwriting.org wrote:

> Hi Val,
>
> I think she was refering to sending mail with SignPuddle.  When you send
> mail, you use gloss.  You have no chance to modify the signs.
>
> This will change.  In the future, you will be able to build emails
> interactively.  First you could search for signs (by gloss or symbol),
> modify the sign (using SignMaker), and then add it to the email.  When this
> is possible, having general classifiers in a dictionary would be more
> useful.
>
> -Stephen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Valerie Sutton
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:23 PM
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] Adding Classifiers to SignPuddle Dictionaries
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> March 15, 2005
>
> On Mar 15, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Nancy Emery wrote:
>> But for actually using them - since the location, movement and
>> orientation
>> have to be added anyway, since they depend on what is being said with
>> the
>> classifier, I'm not sure that it would be much more helpful to take the
>> handshape from the dictionary than just to compose the sign from
>> scratch....
>> It's just that in certain texts some classifier constructions are used
>> over
>> and over, and it is nice to be able to cut, paste and modify rather
>> than
>> rebuild the whole thing.  But I don't know that dictionary signs can be
>> modified by the user anyway...
>
> Signs can be modified in the public SignPuddles, if you are a
> Dictionary Editor with a password. I can invite you to be an Editor, if
> you wish, and you could try to enter a few classifiers and then point
> us to them on the web and we can all look at them...how about that? A
> good way to discuss the issue...
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>