First Draft of the Binary SignWriting proposal for 2008

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
December 2, 2007

On Dec 2, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:
> I've created my first rough draft proposal for Binary SignWriting.   
> This is the theory behind Unicode, SignWriting, SignMaker, and  
> SignText.  There is a simple logic that makes it fast and small.  
> I'd welcome any comments or questions.  I'm working on concrete  
> numbers for the ISWA 2008.  This will be the official symbol set  
> and SSS numbering for 2008.  Once the ISWA is official in January  
> 2008, I'll publish the official base symbol encoding data.   Guides  
> will be available for the BSE and BSW file formats.  All  
> information on SignPuddle.net is under the Creative Commons  
> Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license. These standards will be set for  
> the entire year of 2008.  During that time, we'll review the  
> standards for a possible update in 2009. Thanks for you review...Steve


Hi Steve -
This is a good write-up, and important to my development of the ISWA  
2008...

http://signpuddle.net/index.php?id=Binary%20SignWriting

Regarding the maximum numbers which you mention in this paragraph...

> Steve writes
> "The SSS is a 6 part number system. Here is an example SSS ID  
> "01-01-001-01-01-01". This is a combination of "category" - "group"  
> - "base" - "variation" - "fill" - "rotation". The max numbers for  
> each are 8-10-50-5-6-16. For storage this would require 3-4-6-3-3-4  
> bits each, or 23 total. This is an awekwered bit size. Instead of  
> number parts, we can analyze the ISWA by meaningful parts."


So here is my question...
Do I need to be sure to not have more than 50 symbols within one  
group, and not more than 5 variations for one symbol?

This is important for me to know, because some of the Movement Arrows  
need more sizes...and the sizes are under Variations...at the moment  
I don't believe we have more than three possible sizes for any one  
Movement Arrow, but now that I will be expanding it to include more  
sizes, I will make sure that there are not more than 5 sizes for any  
one Movement Arrow...that should be enough and will give the writer  
much more flexibility than what we have now...

So that's cool...;-)

Val ;-)







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