Blog about 69-page ASL book....

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 16, 2007

Hello Gerard -
Thank you for this blog. There have been other larger documents  
written in other Sign Languages, in SignWriting, in the past...For  
example, in Spain, there is a novel written in Madrid Sign Language  
and it is 140 pages, and there have been several large documents from  
Nicaragua in Nicaraguan Sign Language, but in ASL we have tended to  
write shorter ones, like 10 pages, instead of 69 pages. We hope to  
complete the entire Gospel According to John in 2008, which will be  
around 400 pages is my guess (21 chapters), and Nancy plans to  
continue to translate all four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John....

Cat in the Hat and Sleeping Beauty will be fairly large too,  
depending on the accompanying illustrations. And yes, this is quite  
an accomplishment, because the older documents from Spain and  
Nicaragua were published with our old (classic) SignWriter DOS  
program that only writes from left to right on the page (there was no  
other software at the time of those publications). This is the first  
time that we are writing large documents with vertical columns, which  
encompasses important aspects of Sign Language grammar called  
Lanes...so we are glad to have the two programs we have: SignPuddle  
and SignBank, to produce these new vertical-column documents with  
Lanes...SignPuddle is the program we use to write in vertical lanes,  
and SignBank DocumentMaker is a program that helps us put those  
columns into book format....

Just to give you some insight...and yes...this all leads to a future  
Wikipedia in ASL and other signed languages - that is for sure!

Val ;-)

PS. You are welcome to place this message on your blog if you wish!



On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> November 16, 2007
>
> Thank you, Gerard, for this blog today about our new ASL document!  
> Val ;-)
>
> ----
>
> A message from Gerard today:
>
> Hoi,
> I saw the other mail about a 69 page document in SignWriting .. I  
> blogged about it.
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2007/11/69-page-document-in- 
> signwriting.html
> Thanks,
>     Gerard
>
> ----------
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> November 16, 2007
>>
>> Dear SW List Members!
>>
>> I am proud to announce a new Special Feature posted today...
>>
>> Go to:
>>
>> SignWriting Site
>> http://www.SignWriting.org
>>
>> (If you have visited there recently, you may have to Refresh or  
>> Reload your web browser.)
>>
>>
>> You will find two documents to download:
>>
>> 1. American Sign Language Book
>> The Gospel According to John, Chapters 1-3
>> Romero ASL Translation, 69 pages in PDF
>>
>> and
>>
>> 2. Five Articles from the Czech Republic
>> About SignWriting in the Czech Republic 2007
>> Published in UNIE Magazine
>> Articles Written by Jan Fikejs
>>
>>
>> THANK YOU, Nancy and Jan, for your contributions to our web site!
>>
>> And congratulations on your accomplishments in 2007...;-)
>>
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>>
>> Valerie Sutton
>> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>>
>> 1. SignWriting
>> Read & Write Sign Languages
>> http://www.SignWriting.org
>>
>> 2. SignBank
>> Create Sign Language Databases
>> http://www.SignBank.org
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>> 3. SignPuddle
>> Online Sign Language Community
>> http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
>>
>>
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