SignWriting on OmegaWiki ;-)

[Steve Slevinski]

Another idea is to use the already existing preformatted SignText column 
images.  Theses images handle the SignWriting symbols, spacing and 
lanes.  Each SignText document is currently available as several column 
PNGs.  We could create a column viewer that would shows up to the first 
4 columns of SignWriting text.  Pressing forward would advance through 
the columns.  This should work well for long  documents.  Even if a 
document is 50 columns, only 4 would be displayed at a time.  Live AJAX 
could handle the columns displayed.  I can easily make a zip file 
containing a SignText's current image columns. 

The other option is SWML-S.  Every SignText document has an SWML-S 
document created.  These are easy to download if you know how.  I can 
make it easier in the future.  There are some tricks to getting 
SignWriting to display properly.  I need to write the specs.

-Steve


Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> April 29, 2007
>
> On Apr 29, 2007, at 6:29 AM, GerardM wrote:
>> Hoi,
>> Thanks for your reply. I have taken the picture of American Sign 
>> Language uploaded it and added it to the portal of American Sign 
>> Language on OmegaWiki.
>>
>> I do agree that programs can be made to do anything, it just needs 
>> doing. I would love to see UNICODE for SignWriting. In the mean time 
>> we can work on getting programs like MediaWiki to accept 
>> SignWriting.. I think that would be awesome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     GerardM
>>
>> http://www.omegawiki.org/Portal:ase
>
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>
> Hello Gerard and Charles!
>
> Thank you for introducing us to OmegaWiki...I am totally impressed 
> with the Wiki-style of communicating languages and articles ...as well 
> as SignWriting in SignPuddles...all using this open way of 
> communicating on the web - such freedom is to be treasured, since 
> historically ideas never used to be so open and available to everyone...
>
> Thank you for including Sign Languages in OmegaWiki...
>
> Regarding using SignWriting on OmegaWiki right now...here are some ideas:
>
> 1. Can OmegaWiki accept graphics? I assume the answer is yes...since I 
> see the sentence that Charles gave you is now posted there!
>
> Since that is the case, complete sentences and articles could be 
> posted as graphics files, by taking a screen capture of a document 
> written in SignPuddle and posting the sentences as graphics. See 
> attached file below...
>
> 2. Another idea...if you can develop OmegaWiki to except SWML, then we 
> can produce the documents in SignPuddle, and then export using SWML, 
> to use on OmegaWiki. (As you know, SWML is a form of XML...the 
> SignWriting Markup Language...)
>
> 3. A third idea is to give us the ability to post PDF files on 
> OmegaWiki. Then, the reader would click on a PDF file to read the 
> SignWriting article. We can create PDF files of our SignWriting 
> documents, either from SignPuddle or SignBank...
>
> 4. A fourth idea is to create a link inside the OmegaWiki article, 
> that links the reader to the document stored in the Literature Library 
> in SignPuddle, so they read the document on SignPuddle in vertical 
> columns, but still feel like they are really on OmegaWiki...
>
> In SignBank, another program of ours, we can actually open SignPuddle 
> as a web page, inside SignBank while we are still in SignBank, so you 
> never leave SignBank to read documents in SignPuddle...it is an 
> amazing feature built into SignBank now...
>
> All these are thoughts for the moment!
>
> What do you think?  Val ;-)
>
> PS. Here is a screen capture taken from Adam Frost's opening web page 
> on his site:
>
> http://www.frostvillage.com/asl/index.html
>
>
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