International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) in finished ; -)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 4, 2008

Hi Anny!
Thanks for your encouraging words...;-))

Val ;-)

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On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:

> great job val!!
> congratulations!
>
> ANny


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> 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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