SignPuddle Brackets

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SignWriting List
July 23, 2009

There are several reasons why I personally do not use the brackets any  
longer, although they were symbols that I used daily, in other  
sections of our writing system, and are still definitely needed in  
Movement Writing

One reason has to do with fluency in reading SignWriting Literature.  
When reading a language...like a novel or a newspaper... when you  
finally reach the end of a sentence, it is disconcerting to see a  
bracket and have to look back to see what was at the beginning of the  
sentence...going back on a sentence does not encourage fast reading of  
literature...we don't look back when reading spoken languages...

Another reason - centering lanes with heads and shoulders...When  
writing vertically the head circles and shoulder lines create the  
"center of the lane you are writing in"...the center of the head and  
shoulder lines helps SignText give us an automatically centered  
vertical column, and this was hard to program - thank you, Steve!

So the brackets throw the head off center because they are written to  
the side of the head, and since we do not write with the brackets for  
daily use anyway, they were not included in the ISWA 2008.

But yes...there is a way to use brackets in SignText nonetheless...You  
build them with basic lines and then...

The trick is to place the brackets in the Left Lane, while the real  
sentence is in the Center Lane...then you are not throwing the  
centering of the heads off kilter inside the sentence itself, and you  
can really see the brackets clearly sticking out in the Left Lane...

Here is a sample...see attached...notice that we only have the bracket  
at the beginning and end...there is no way to continue the bracket  
line down the column in SignText..I think it is easier to read this  
way anyway...

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