SignText email - how many symbols in URL allowed

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 26, 2006

Hello Bill, Stefan and everyone!
This is easily solved, but it is important not to use symbols that  
can be confused with other symbols!

The problem with using the symbols that you attached, Bill, is that  
those have another meaning...those particular symbols are used to  
show continuous gradual movement over time...so they cannot be used...

And the straight single line that Stefan and James Shepard-Kegl used  
in horizontal writing will be mis-read as a hyphen in vertical  
writing, so a single line should not be used either...

Although I personally can read Sign-Names easily within a text, if  
people really feel they need to have the equivalent of a capital  
letter in written spoken languages, there are ways to do that...

We could inter-mix sizes of symbols inside the document, so the Sign- 
Names would be slightly larger than the rest of the signs in the  
document...or we can create a special symbol that ONLY can be used  
for capitalization of proper names...

But the hypen and the curves are not the symbols to use for that!

But thanks so much for your ideas and please know I am not  
discounting them...just trying to find a solution that cannot be  
confused with anything else...that's all! So your ideas are always  
welcome of course!!

Val ;-)

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On Oct 26, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Bill Reese wrote:

> Val,
> Excuse me for jumping in here but I found the question about the  
> personal pronoun a bit intriguing.  I have problems understanding a  
> name sign as I may not recognize it as one.  Some sort of mark to  
> indicate it would help out - at least for me.
>
> After considering a few shapes and positions, and figuring that  
> Stephen would probably prefer a single stroke, I had to wonder if a  
> curved line would work, similar to this but without the top line:
> <08-02-001-01-05-01.png>
>
>
>
> A curved line that transitions to straight would be easy to make  
> and is similar to the movement used in the ASL for "introduction".
>
> Bill
>
>
> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>
>> 2. A horizontal line under a sign, when writing in vertical  
>> columns, means a hypen -  like this -  so underlining your name,  
>> when you wrote from left to right in SignWriter DOS did not hurt  
>> anything, because when you write from right to left it didn't mean  
>> anything else because a hyphen is vertical in that case, but now  
>> that you are writing down, the horizontal line means something  
>> else...it means a hyphen...so you need to find another way to mark  
>> a Proper Name when writing vertically...I personally see no need  
>> to mark a Proper Name because I can see that it is a Sign Name  
>> pretty easily without any underlining, but anyway, if you must  
>> mark that we need to find another way to do that when writing  
>> vertically...why not use a color to mark the Proper Name for your  
>> students? You can color signs, before creating the PDF in the PDF  
>> feature...so you could make all Proper Names red or green or  
>> whatever color you want!
>