New SignWriting Literature posted!

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SignWriting List
October 29, 2007

Hello Stefan and Everyone!
Thank you for this very nice email message. Nancy is not a member of  
the SignWriting List, but it is true that Nancy has been using Sutton  
DanceWriting since 1975 and SignWriting since 1980. I will definitely  
send your message to Nancy privately...thank you for this!

Nancy is the first person to be a qualified teacher of DanceWriting  
in 1975, and then became a trained interpreter in ASL, and then  
became skilled in SignWriting...So there are so many documents  
written in SignWriting by Nancy you wouldn't believe it - and some of  
them have DanceWriting blended with SignWriting...very beautiful and  
very impressive!

The other day, before the fires, I had not been feeling well because  
I fell and hurt myself...(smile I am fine now)...and Nancy wrote me a  
"get well card" that blended SignWriting and DanceWriting...it is so  
cute! I will ask her permission to post it to the SignWriting List....

Nancy has now made it her job to translate the four Gospels of the  
Bible into written ASL, and has already written John Chapters 1-10  
and also Chapter 14 already in SignPuddle...we are working together  
in a private ASL Bible Puddle, on the project, and I am in charge of  
the layout of the books...obviously I have only finished Chapters 1-3  
so far, and last night we found some errors we need to correct  
again...such is life with documents!

The older writers, who worked with me from 1974-1986 are not  
necessarily computer oriented and the majority of the older writers  
are not members of the SignWriting List because they did not come to  
the writing system through the computer...interesting, isn't it?  
Slowly I am asking them to return to learn to use our new software,  
SignPuddle. Another writer from the 1980's called me last Friday and  
I introduced her to the SignPuddle 1.5 for the first time...she  
didn't even know it existed and had never even seen our web sites on  
the web... and she was just amazed and plans to start using it...so  
we all grow together at different times!

I will try to keep the List informed of all these happenings!

I have a deadline with the first seven chapters of John, and also  
with the Cat in the Hat document (we will lose permission to post it  
if I do not post it by January 2008)...So I have been working on both  
of these documents...

And yes of course I know that everyone needs the ISWA (International  
SignWriting Alphabet) which will include the handshapes of Ethiopia  
plus other improved arrows that are bigger etc...so that Eyasu and  
his group in Ethiopia can write Ethiopian Sign Language Literature in  
SignPuddle 1.5. It is a huge job because we cannot just install only  
the new handshapes and then later install other symbols...we have to  
do the installation into SignPuddle all at once, which means I cannot  
post the ISWA until everything is done...But I hope to work on this  
in November...

I am sorry this has held you back, Stefan, with designing the TT  
Fonts for Eyasu...I will try to get to this shortly...after Todd,  
SignBank programmer leaves today...we are re-designing DocumentMaker  
today...

Val ;-)

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On Oct 29, 2007, at 1:55 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Hi Val, Nancy, Bill   and
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> I took some time to browse through old (!!) email messages - and  
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> Well I know that Nancy Romero is one of our famous sw-list -  
> members -- since she has been there in the first days of  
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> She knows DanceWriting as well ...
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> Hi Nancy, who else but you can explain what it means to write by  
> hand .... to be a pioneer.. and now again you created another  
> document with a new developed software  which will become a  
> milestone in SW history!
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> Back in 99 Valerie posted this message:
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> > Go to Nancy Romero's story: "A Giraffe Named Ivan", written in
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> Bill - you remember your first tanslation ... smile.
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> Ha Valerie - so time and people proof you to be right to continue  
> with all your energy to develop and spread your wonderful invention  
> to preserve and document the SL of the world! Hope in time you will  
> add the missing Ethiopean handshapes? I jnow about the pile on your  
> to do list – but once we do have all the needed handshapes Eyasu  
> and me can work on the TT-Font keyboard which would be a great   
> support for their porject. At least I hope so ...
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> Congrats Nancy and Val on your achievement
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: sw-l-bounces at majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:sw-l- 
> bounces at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] Im Auftrag von Valerie Sutton
> Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2007 05:46
> An: List SignWriting
> Betreff: [sw-l] New SignWriting Literature posted!
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> SignWriting List
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> October 28, 2007
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> New SignWriting Literature posted!
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> Gospel According to John Chapters 1-3 in ASL
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> Romero Translation
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> http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs6/sw0510-ASLBible-Romero-
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> John1-3.pdf
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> Nancy Romero wrote this directly in ASL, in SignPuddle 1.5. No video
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> I then prepared the document for publication, using SignBank
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> DocumentMaker.
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> The document is 74 pages...This is only the first three chapters out
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> of 21 chapters, so in time it will become a document with hundreds of
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> I will create a web page about it later this week -
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> Enjoy!
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> Val ;-)
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