Smart font for ISWA 2010

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
12/12/2012

What a cool date it is today - 12/12/12 - WOW!!

Eduardo and Steve -
I am sooo thrilled with your work Eduardo…I tried to follow the instructions to use Graphite on my computer, and I stopped the process when I got a warning on my computer saying that I better be careful because this could possibly damage files or be a problem ….so I wasn't sure if I wanted to do this change-over or not? So I didn't do it…

Should I do it? I would love to test your Graphite work…

Also I have a second question…

If we provide fonts with smaller symbol-sets, just for ASL or just for one other sign language, such as LIBRAS, doesn't that create a problem for us if we wanted later, to copy and paste documents between Wikipedias for different sign languages, etc?

That is why I was hopeful that Jonathan's  compressed font development might work better instead providing us with one two-colored font for the entire ISWA, rather than separate fonts for each sign language? Or have I completely misunderstood what is happening?

Please forgive my non-programmer language and ideas - I am really excited and grateful for these developments -

Val ;-)

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On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Eduardo,
> 
> 
> On 12/12/12 11:50 AM, Eduardo Trápani wrote
>> How do I get the SPML files?
> 1) The SPML files can be accessed directly in a folder:
> http://signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/data/spml
> 
> 2) The SPML files are available from SignPuddle Online on the Export page:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> If you're going to create an alternate form, then a simple list of
>> symbols is ok (I can only trim the font at the symbol level, if a single
>> fill/rotation combination is in use I have to include the whole 96 glyphs).
> 
> I can include this as a tool under symbol frequency in the SignWriting Icon Server.
> 
>>> If you can get this working, I'll have to re-implement the original
>>> Unicode compromise proposal that I dropped in 2011.
>> Why?  I didn't understand.  The test page I sent to the list already has
>> a reduced (web) font and it works with the current unicode stream.
> 
> Never mind.  I didn't realize how far you've gone.  I thought you were limited to the symbols without 2-dimensional layout.  When I view the page, I see the following...
> http://programoj.esperanto.org.uy/sw/Main_page_2.html
> 
> 
> I know I need the Graphite extension, but I didn't entirely grasp your accomplishment without the screen capture.
> 
> Later, when you showed your screen capture that included 2-dimensional layout, I understood that you could create the 2-dimensional logograms with Graphite using the standard Unicode plane 15 characters. Very nice!  Outstanding in fact.
> 
> Keep us posted.
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve

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