SignText license opinions

[Steve Slevinski]

Hi Stuart,

The compact syntax predates the XML.  This is the build string that was 
first used in SignMaker.  This same build string was used in SignText 
before SignText could handle lanes.  When I added lanes to SignText, it 
was easiest to throw it on the end of the build string.  I could safely 
assume that if a SignText document didn't have lane information then it 
wasn't written with lanes and I could use the center lane.  Putting the 
lane on the end saved me the time of having to write conversion scripts 
for all of the existing single lane SignText documents.
 
It would be possible to switch the compact syntax around, but then I'd 
have to change a lot of code and write conversion utilities.  Unless 
there's a good reason (other than aesthetics), I don't see the value. 
 
Regards,
-Steve

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> Steve,
>
> It would seem to me that it would take a fairly simple change in your 
> reading routines to tell it that the first element in a compact string 
> is the lane followed by the symbol information. I guess I am wondering 
> why you would consider it easier to do it after instead of before? 
> Then the XML and the compact versions can be relatively identical in 
> their structures.
>
> Stuart 



____________________________________________

SW-L SignWriting List

Post Message
SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu

List Archives and Help
http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/

Change Email Settings
http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l