SignFont

[Sandy Fleming]

Hi Machado!

This is very interesting.

I've installed the font but can't see a way of getting at the SSS2004 
symbols.

Can you explain to me how to, say, type one or two SSS2004 symbols in MS 
Word?

Please excuse any ignorance - I'm not used to working with fonts!

Thanks!

Sandy

machado at softwarelivre.org wrote:

> Hi, Nuno!
>
> I've been working on a SSS2004-based truetype font.
> I had put all the 25900+ symbols of SSS2004 in the end of the unicode 
> 'slots'.
> It lacks yet for regular eastern letters, numbers and punctuation glyphs.
>
> I'm sure that there are some buggy symbols once that I had used an 
> automatic
> loading process to build the glyphs.
> Once i've got the font released I believe that people will point the 
> problems(if
> someone ever use these fonts :o).
> Good news are that I'm about to release it under a GPL-compatible[1]
> License(probabily, bitstream license[2]) and I'll also add some editing
> instructions in order to allow people to do the enhancing theirselves.
>
> I really don't know if the font will be suitable for you, but I'm 
> pretty sure
> that you won't have to wait more than a few days to find out. :o)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Machado
>
> [1] GPL stands for General Public License. See
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses 
> (or the
> entire www.sfs.org).
> [2] The Bitstream free type fonts copyright can be found here
> http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
>
> Quoting Nuno-Miguel Raposo <nuno at california.com>:
>
>> I've been doing some research in all the different attempts
>> at making a transcription system for Sign Languages, and I
>> came across SignFont.
>>
>> The only information I was able to find was an old book at
>> the Library, and a web page that appears to not be
>> functioning anymore.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone out there happened to still have
>> an old Mac TrueType font of SignFont.  Or any TrueType font
>> for SignFont.
>>
>> I'd appreciate it if anyone does have information about
>> SignFont, if you could contact me personally, that would be
>> great. (Nuno at california.com)
>>
>> Nuno
>>
>>
>
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