New Version of SignText ready for testing...

[Cherie Wren]

I am ready!  I had started playing with SignText while
waiting for the signBank lessons...  Thats where the
questions about sentences originated! ::smile::

cherie

--- Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:

> SignWriting List
> January 31, 2006
> 
> BRAVO! Wow...so fast Steve...How do you do it?
> 
> I want everyone to know that this new SignText is a
> really fun  
> program and little different than before. I would
> like to teach  
> people how to use it.
> 
> Here is my suggestion...
> 
> Let me start teaching SignText, and by the time I am
> done, maybe Anny  
> will have Mac OS X in her computer! And we can drag
> and drop signs  
> from SignText into SignBank...
> 
> This will be fun!
> 
> SignText is a way to write sentences, email and
> documents without  
> using any English gloss or any words from any spoken
> languages at  
> all...It works with SignMaker, but instead of saving
> signs in a  
> dictionary, you are saving whole sentences into a
> bookmark directory  
> on your browser...
> 
> I will start tomorrow morning, Wednesday, to teach
> the new SignText...
> 
> Many thanks Steve, from the bottom of my heart -
> This is a blessing...
> 
> Val ;-)
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Steve Slevinski wrote:
> 
> > Hi List,
> >
> > A while back I was talking with Val.  She
> mentioned there was a  
> > school that liked to use SignText but was
> frustrated by its  
> > limitations.  Like Val, I enjoy working on stuff
> that gets used.   
> > So I made some major improvements to SignText
> including basic  
> > editing, saving, loading, email, and display.
> >
> > Val says she will update the instructions, but for
> the daring...
> >
> > Basic Editing with the mini-cons
> > Each sign in the sign sentence has 9 special icons
> that help with  
> > editing
> > <moz-screenshot.jpg>
> >
> >
> > <moz-screenshot-1.jpg>
> > - Load this sign into the SignBox
> > <moz-screenshot-2.jpg>
> > - Delete this sign from sentence
> > <moz-screenshot-4.jpg>
> > - Replace this sign in the sentence with the sign
> in SignBox
> > <moz-screenshot-5.jpg>
> > - Insert the sign in the SignBox above this sign
> > <moz-screenshot-6.jpg>
> > - Insert the sign in the SignBox below this sign
> > <moz-screenshot-3.jpg>
> > - Change the lane of this sign
> > <moz-screenshot-8.jpg>
> > - Move this sign up or down in the sentence
> >
> > Improved Options
> > When you have completed the document, you now have
> several options.
> >
> > Display - Opens a new page where only the document
> is visible.
> > Email - Opens a page on SignBank.org where you can
> send an email in  
> > SignWriting
> > Bookmark - Opens a page you can bookmark where you
> can reload the  
> > document into SignText.  This allows you to save
> your work and edit  
> > it later.
> > Import - Opens a page on SignBank.org where you
> can choose a  
> > language so you can import into a SignPuddle
> dictionary
> > SWML - View the document in SignWriting markup
> language.
> >
> > You can use SignText online or you can download
> SignText to use  
> > offline.  The offline version is the exact same,
> except Email and  
> > Import will not work until you connect to the
> internet.
> >
> > SignText Online:
> > http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext
> >
> > SignText download:
> > http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext.zip
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > -Steve
> 
> 


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