SignPuddle Brackets

[Valerie Sutton]

Hi Charles -
Go right ahead and change it as you wish. I never touched it....

I personally like it the way you wrote it...but whatever feels good to  
you ...

Val ;-)

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On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Charles Butler wrote:

> Valerie,
>
> I remember putting the expression in the left hand lane whenever it  
> changed in my original transcription.  Currently, it seems to have  
> been merged into the sign writing as centered.
>
> Charles
>
>
> --- On Thu, 7/23/09, SignWriting <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:
>
> From: SignWriting <signwriting at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignPuddle Brackets
> To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 4:20 PM
>
> 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...
>
>
>
> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----
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