SignWriting on OmegaWiki ;-)

[Steve Slevinski]

Hi Val,

This would be an easy extension for any website.  Upload a zip file of 
the column images or download a zip file.  We'd need a server side and 
the AJAX viewer.  We could create add-ons for OmegaWiki, using a 
copyright compliant license.  We could also make the viewer a free 
download for other websites to help promote the use of SignWriting.

Write in SignPuddle, export the columns as a zip.  Upload the zip file 
to the website.  We could also include the SWML in the zip.  Very easy 
to use for now and for later when the SWML is used directly.

I'm rewriting SWML into STML for the new SignText.  It will include PDFs 
as well.  Does any have the software list for splitting and combining 
PDFs.  The Mac and the PC are both unique.

Regards,
-Steve

Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> April 29, 2007
>
> Hello Steve-
> This would be totally awesome...a SignPuddle (SignText) ColumnViewer!
>
> Could the column viewer then be placed on a web site, so that people 
> visiting the web site could view the columns as a part of that web 
> site? for example, on OmegaWiki?
>
> I am not sure the OmegaWiki site can accept XML or SWML-S...I hope so!
>
> Val ;-)
>
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>
> On Apr 29, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <mime-attachment.png>
>>>
>>>
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