International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) in finished ; -)

Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod acpg at VTXNET.CH
Thu Sep 4 20:47:04 UTC 2008


great job val!!
congratulations!

ANny
Le 4 sept. 08 à 22:38, Valerie Sutton a écrit :

> SignWriting List
> September 4, 2008
>
> Dear SignWriting List:
>
> Today, Sept. 4, 2008, I finalized the International SignWriting  
> Alphabet (ISWA 2008).
>
> It has been a labor of love on my part for several years, and all  
> this year, in 2008, I have been working on it steadily. There are  
> so many variations of sizes and nuances of symbols when writing  
> SignWriting by hand, and it has been difficult, to capture all of  
> those nuances in computers all these years. The ISWA is our best  
> attempt to date.
>
> Although there can always be another handshape here and there,  
> needed at a later date, generally I feel that the ISWA 2008 is a  
> far better symbolset that the currently used IMWA, and I am so  
> happy that shortly the ISWA will be available for use.
>
> Right now, Steve is still developing the new software. I completed  
> the ISWA at 2:00 this morning. Steve will help me check it for any  
> conversion issues, although I doubt there will be any problems,  
> since it has been converting beautifully all along...
>
> Now I am writing documentation teaching the ISWA. Attached is  
> Chapter 2 from the new ISWA Manual I am writing now, which has not  
> been posted on the web yet.
>
> Chapter 2 shows the 30 Symbol Groups of the ISWA (the visual mapping):
>
> <ISWAManualChapter2.pdf>
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