ASL signers...please read this and give your response...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 9, 2006

Hi Steve, Stuart and everyone -

Wow. That's cool! Thank you, Steve. I would vote for that myself.  
Then, when people are trying to find signs to move into SignText,  
they would not get the question mark...they either find the sign or  
they don't...but then we could always access the old pics when we are  
doing editing...yes...I vote to try this...is it hard to do?  Val ;-)

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On Mar 9, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Val,
>
> We could always create a new puddle called sgn-US-pic.  I would  
> then move the graphic only signs into this new puddle.
> -Steve
>
> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>> SignWriting List
>> March 9, 2006
>>
>> Stuart Thiessen from Iowa wrote:
>>> Is there a way that it can still be searchable and accessible so we
>>> can put the old graphic-only signs in another window or tab of our
>>> browser when we want to refer to an old sign and add it to the new
>>> dictionary?
>>>
>>> That would be helpful because then we don't have to re-invent the
>>> wheel for signs already composed. Of course, if those signs have any
>>> spelling errors, then we will still have to deal with the spelling,
>>> but at least it gives us a place to start.
>>
>>
>> Hello Stuart!
>> Many thanks for this response...these are important thoughts.  
>> Maybe I am opening a can of worms with that suggestion, but I feel  
>> frustrated too, because there are tiny problems people have  
>> because of this issue...like not being able to load a sign into  
>> SignMaker because it is a graphic, or not being able to change its  
>> color or size, or not being able to see it in SignText...all those  
>> issues would go away, but then we would have worse ones, maybe, by  
>> taking those signs away, because as you say, we still need to see  
>> the old entries sometimes...so after thinking about this, thanks  
>> to your comments, I am beginning to think that leaving them is  
>> probably the lesser of two evils...at least we see them  
>> immediately in the same place, and do not have to find another way  
>> to view the old signs...
>>
>> Do you agree?
>>
>> By the way, while I have you, smile...Are you considering going to  
>> the NAD conference here in California in July? I confess I have  
>> not done all the many things I thought I would do related to that  
>> conference, and I thought maybe you are teaching this summer  
>> elsewhere? What are your plans? If you are coming to California,  
>> you are most welcome and I look forward seeing you...smile...If  
>> not that is ok too...smile...
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
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