typing program

[Claudia S. Bianchini]

In Italy, Fabrizio Borgia (univ. "Sapienza" of Rome 1), one of my
"favorites collaborators", is working on an OCR system for SW for his PhD
Thesis. When he will finish we can handwrite SW, scan it and obtain a
digital version unloadable in the puddle. With Fabrizio we also develop new
software (called SWift) for typing SW, in my opinion is really faster than
SignMaker. I have to ask him when our SWift will be available for everyone.
But you can have an overview in the last chapter of my PhD thesis and in
some of our articles (available here: http://www.csbianchini.com/
index.php/liste-commentee-des-publications)
Claudia


2013/5/5 Kimberley Shaw <skifoot at gmail.com>

> You said it, Charles!
> That's why so many of my SW texts exist in handwritten -- but not yet
> "typeset" -- drafts.
> Best,
> Kim from Boston
>
> On 5/5/13, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Having been a part of the SignWriting community for more than 30 years,
> i am
> > somewhat concerned that the usefulness of a typing program has been lost.
> >
> > When computers were first introduced to signwriting, I went to New York
> City
> > for a demonstration of program on the AppleIIe which worked almost
> > magically.
> >
> >
> > I could start with an English sentence, with a highlight of a mouse
> change
> > that sentence to ASL fingerspelling, and then go through and word by word
> > replace English words with ASL signs and then begin moving them around to
> > show the changes into ASL grammar.
> >
> >
> > I can't do that now. Entry into the SW puddle is slow, painstaking, and
> is
> > not given to the speed of typing which is going to be needed if SW is
> ever
> > going to be an everyday writing system on a computer.
> >
> >
> > What ever happened to the approach of typing, not moving a mouse, to
> > retrieve a handshape, rotate it, add facial expressions, and think like a
> > signer not digging through a mouse-retrieval system to a shape buried
> under
> > 5 layers of clicking?
> >
> >
> > With the change to your new coding system, that becomes even less
> > transparent. It may be great for programmers but for the layperson it has
> > become frustrating and trying to demo a program in a public school
> system is
> > not one I would want to do now.
> >
> >
> > SignWriting as handwriting is still very useful, but even with my
> dictionary
> > program, I can't just "retrieve" an entry. A relational database would
> have
> > to be tied to every piece of writing, and that gets very cumbersome. What
> > happens if the net goes down, there goes the writing.
> >
> >
> > Charles Butler
> > chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com
> > 240-764-5748
> > Clear writing moves business forward.
>
>


-- 
Claudia S. Bianchini, PhD
A.T.E.R. Licence SDL-LSF @ Univ. Poitiers (France)
chiadu14 at gmail.com <chiadu14 at gmail.comt>
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