Background colour?

[Valerie Sutton]

Yes...filling the white palms with white paint was discussed two  
summers ago as well, and it was decided that it was worth the many  
weeks work for me to go back and fill all the white palms with white  
paint, rather than being transparent like they were in the beginning,  
so that we can see which hand is on top of, or in front of  
another...at the moment only a few hands are like that in the current  
symbolset, but when the ISWA is installed all the hands will be  
consistently with white plams...and it really helps when reading a  
document...

As far as having two symbolsets...one with transparent palms like  
before to use with colored backgrounds, and one with white  
palms...even if that were programmable, and it probably is, that is  
not on the most urgent to-do list right now...other more important  
things come first, but of course someday we can consider it...Maybe i  
will have to create two sets of the ISWA...one with transparent palms  
and one with white palms - who knows!

And as far as writing by hand goes...of course we do not take the  
time to go find a white ink pen and fill the square with white ink!!

Writing by hand is so simple in comparison and these issues were not  
even thought of years ago, but as computers have become important to  
publishing then the computer software gets more and more  
sophisticated...and when a new feature is introduced, like  
SignWriting columns on a colored background, then new issues and  
needs for new features pop up as well...

So anyway, Steve, if you are reading this, there are other things  
that are more important than getting transparent palms for colored  
backgrounds!

Thanks for your input, everyone...it is great that you are interested  
in testing these things ;-)

Val ;-)

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On Nov 9, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Adam Frost wrote:

> Seeing Val's message reminds me of when we discussed it last summer  
> (I think). When handshapes are placed on each other, the fill needs  
> to be truly filled, or it makes readability hard. So, I think that  
> saying not to have the fill will make more problems, but to have  
> the fill match the color of the background is the best route to go.
>
> Adam
>




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