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[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 6, 2008

Hello Karen and Everyone!
Thank you for your question, and I am posting your answer to the  
SignWriting List again, to be sure everyone can read my answer...Below  
is Karen's last message that was sent to me...

1. First, Karen, I am glad you downloaded Firefox and that is  
excellent. It is important to continue to use Firefox for a variety of  
reasons.

2. Second, you are right. I went to the ASL Dictionary, and I logged  
in...When I logged in and searched for CONGRESS I found that it is one  
of the old signs that was pasted in as a graphic, years ago,  from the  
old SignWriter DOS program...It has to be re-written in SignPuddle to  
become a sign that you can copy, paste, and edit etc...so this is the  
very reason why it is important that signs from SignWriter DOS are re- 
written in SignPuddle, and not pasted as graphics...

3. Coincidentally, today I asked Steve to find all the old signs in  
the ASL dictionary that are still "pasted graphics", so we can go into  
the Dictionary and re-write those signs specifically, and Steve gave  
us a new way to find those signs, for editors who want to help...so we  
are planning to re-write all those signs in the future...right now,  
the sign for Congress is not accessible because of this, although you  
can find it...you just cannot copy it...

4. So...why not open a second browser, and find Congress, and while  
viewing the sign in the second browser, click on SignMaker in Firefox,  
and re-write the sign from the beginning, without copying it?...

That would be a great help for all of us!

Hope this helps - We hope to have all those signs re-written in the  
month of June, so this problem should disappear shortly ;-)

Val ;-)

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> On Jun 6, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Karen wrote:
>> Thank you for the reply.  Yes you got it right and I did what you  
>> suggested.  I downloaded Firefox but I still have the same problem.
>>
>> When I searched for a sign – congress, it was found from a database  
>> and then I copied back into SignMaker.  It still is empty.  I have  
>> the same problem with I used the translation feature.
>> I suspected it has to do something with congress.  You can try  
>> congress and see what would happen.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Karen Alkoby
>>


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