Minimalist

[Steve Slevinski]

For conversations between multiple signers, I believe formatting and 
color should suffice.  The colon has been used to identify who is 
signing.  If you colorize the signers name sign, then the text becomes 
even clearer.  Or if you don't like the color option, you could always 
underline the name signs instead.




To identify the common signing area, perhaps color could be used again.  
A short note in the beginning of the text would assign the purpose to a 
color. 
Such as, the common area is written in blue.


Just some thoughts,
-Steve


rocha at ATLAS.UCPEL.TCHE.BR wrote:

>Valerie,
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>>Before you go, I want to ask you...How was the presentation in France
>>in June? The one that presented transcribing video?
>>    
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>
>  Unfortunately, it happened that I was not able to attend the conference :-(
>
>  But later I talked to many french colleagues that participated in it.
>And I came to realize an interesting point: the french are mostly
>interested in the representation of dialogs, not of narratives.
>
>  That is, they are more interested in learning what are the features
>needed for writing conversations between two or more people, than in
>writing stories.
>
>  It seems that in sign languages, as in oral languages, the writing of
>dialogs will require special symbols and text formatting not usually
>present in the writing of narratives (for instance, indication of who
>has taken the turn in the dialog).
>
>  But in sign languages, it seems that there is a special additional
>requirement: since virtual objects are created in the shared signing
>space, so people can refer to them during the dialogs, it seems that the
>writing of dialogs require the explicit representation of such objects,
>besides the representation of the two (or more) participants in the
>dialog.
>
>  I briefly tried to get a solution for that in SignWriting. I came out
>with the conclusion that it is not a problem that can be solved easily
>(but I confess I didn't try really hard :-)
>
>  There was a paper by Patrice Dalle and Boris Lenseigne, presented at the
>conference, that has pictures clearly illustrating the issue. It is at
>
>    http://tals.limsi.fr/actes/s7.pdf
>
>(the full proceedings is at http://tals.limsi.fr/actes ).
>
>  By just looking at the dialog pictures at that paper one can understand
>the issue: How can a SignWriting dialog be structured so that those
>small elements representing objects and relations between them be
>represented in a clear way, showing that they are all accessible to both
>participants in the dialog?
>
>  Anyway, just the point that french people are more interested in dialogs
>than in story telling is an interesting point :-)
>
>  All the best,
>
>  Antônio Carlos
>
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>Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa
>Escola de Informática - UCPel
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