Machado TrueType fonts for SignWriting SSS-2004 ;-)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 9, 2005

Hello Sandy, and Machado!

Sandy- Did you download the SignFont fonts that Bill Reese sent to  
the List to help another person...Nuno? Those were not Machado's  
fonts for SignWriting symbols...As you know, SignFont is the name of  
another system that is not SignWriting...It is not used by many  
people, if at all, any longer...so those are not SignWriting fonts...

But if you were able to download Machado's TrueType fonts for the  
SignWriting SSS-2004 I am really interested!  Was there a link for  
Machado's TrueType that I missed?

And Machado, if you are not finished and they are not ready for  
download, that is fine...But I am VERY interested to learn more about  
your work...It has been a long time since we have heard from you. Are  
you in Brazil? Please forgive me for asking such a question...can you  
re-tell us about you and your work? And what country are you from?  
smile...

Val ;-)

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On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Sandy Fleming wrote:

> 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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