SignText: Combining Sentences for Long PDF Documents

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 2, 2006

SignText
Combining Sentences for Long PDF Documents

To combine two sentences together into one PDF document:

1. Open the second sentence in the Print to PDF area.
2. Copy the SWML code on that page (in SWML window at bottom of page).
3. Open the first sentence in the Print to PDF area.
4. Paste the SWML for the second sentence, at the end of the SWML for  
the first sentence.
5. Delete the footer of the first sentence and the header of the  
second sentence.
7. Press the PDF button to create the PDF.


WHAT IS A HEADER AND FOOTER IN SWML?

SWML-S has 3 parts.  The header, the body, and the footer.

This is the header
----------------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE swml SYSTEM "http://www.signpuddle.com/swml/swml-s.dtd">
  <swml dialect="S" version="1.1" lang="sgn" glosslang="">



This is the footer
----------------------
  </swml>



The rest is the body, which is just a bunch of signs.  This body has  
2 signs.
------------------------
    <sign lane="0">
      <gloss>sign-1</gloss>
      <symbol x="82" y="139">01-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
    </sign>
    <sign lane="0">
      <gloss>sign-2</gloss>
      <symbol x="165" y="147">01-02-001-01-01-01</symbol>
    </sign>


The easiest way to combine multiple SWML documents is paste the 2  
documents together and then remove the footer from the first and the  
header from the second.