International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) in finished ; -)

[Bill Reese]

I, too, would like to congratulate you Val!  I looked at the PDF and 
it's amazing how much you've done
Now rest for a bit.  :-)

Bill


Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> September 4, 2008
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> Hi Anny!
> Thanks for your encouraging words...;-))
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> Val ;-)
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> On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:
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>> great job val!!
>> congratulations!
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>> ANny
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>> Le 4 sept. 08 à 22:38, Valerie Sutton a écrit :
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>>> 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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