SignWriting and SiGML

[Honza]

Thank you for you answer.

Actually I am wrong about the SignWriting and SiGML. I was hoping that
SignWriting can be stored as SiGML too..
Sure, there are some approximagions but no SiGML. OK

Honza

On 9 August 2012 20:31, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The only program that I know of is SignText by Rachel Channon which is a
> descriptive system of signed languages. It has a set of vocabulary in
> HamNoSys and a set in SignWriting so there may be some approximation of one
> in the other, but SignWriting is a writing system based on sign, HamNoSys
> based on one sign language.
>
> Charles Butler
> chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com
> 240-764-5748
> Clear writing moves business forward.
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* SignWriting <signwriting at MAC.COM>
> *To:* SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 9, 2012 1:33 PM
> *Subject:* Re: SignWriting and SiGML
>
> SignWriting List
> August 9, 2012
>
> Hello Honza and everyone -
>
> Shane wrote awhile ago:
>
> >>> This is really the difference between SignWriting and HamNoSys.
> >>> SiGML is
> >>> based on HamNoSys, which is an analysis of the sign language, where
> >>> SignWriting is a writing of the sign language.
>
>
> So SiGML is HamNoSys, not SignWriting….
>
> So that would require special software to write in SignWriting, with the
> purpose of creating HamNoSys SiGML code...
>
> Our organization has never worked directly with the HanNoSys organization
> to create such a program. I have never heard of such a program.
>
> But perhaps someone else has created a program like that?
>
> I know Dr.Penny Boyes Braem and her colleagues are working with both
> systems…
>
> Penny is no longer on the SignWriting List, but I would suggest writing to
> them - I will send you their email addresses privately -
>
> Val ;-)
>
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>
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Honza wrote:
>
> > Hello (probably mainly Val and Steve),
> >
> > I am sorry if this question is answered bud I could not find it now.
> > Is it possible to save (or convert), or just show signs written usin
> SignWritng in SiGML?
> >
> > Thank you.
> > (Steve I think you have written something about this recently, but I
> cannot find it)
> > Honza
> >
> >
>
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