Announcing: the SignWriting Image Server beta

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 6, 2008

Hi Jonathan -
I also want to thank you for your enthusiastic interest in the SWIS  
and our new software that is to come...I am just sooo happy to see the  
old signs written with the old IMWA, converting to the new symbols  
using the ISWA, so perfectly...That is to Steve's credit, because his  
software did the conversion from the old to the new, so  
seamlessly...it is very impressive!

I can't wait to start using the symbols of the ISWA 2008 in  
SignPuddle...in the next couple of months it will become a part of our  
daily lives...We need the new symbols, because the ISWA includes  
handshapes needed to write new signed languages, and also more variety  
of movement symbols and facial expressions, and no DanceWriting  
symbols or skateboards (grin)...so it is just for SignWriting, which  
means we have only 30 Symbol Groups instead of 50 Symbol Groups like  
before in the old IMWA...so it feels cleaner and less  
complicated...but includes symbols we have always needed...plus some  
standardization has become the norm...the Circle symbols are more  
consistent and so forth...

Val ;-)

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On May 6, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Jonathan wrote:
>> I was wondering if you had SWIS did any full documents yet like Cat  
>> in the hat etc.
> That's what I'm working on right now.  The release candidate 1for  
> SWIS will be able to handle document display.
>> I was wondering, how is STML handling the several signs to one gloss?
> Currently, I've removed glossing from STML so that it focuses  
> exclusively on SignText documents.  I'm trying to integrate  
> cascading style sheets so that it's easy to change the appearance of  
> a document.
>
> Some type of markup will handle glossing.  I'm going to allow  
> multiple glosses for each sign.  It will look something like
> <sign>
> <gloss>first gloss</gloss>
> <gloss>second gloss</gloss>
> ...
> </sign>
>
> For a gloss to be associated with more than one sign, you'll need to  
> repeat the gloss for each sign.  An additional index can keep track  
> of which signs are associated with which glosses.  That's how  
> SignPuddle currently works.
>> Keep up the good work!!
> Thanks for the vote of confidence.  I'm really excited about SWIS.   
> I'll be more excited when I have the SignText plug-in ready.
>
> Regards,
> -Steve
>
>
>
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Val ;-)



Valerie Sutton
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