SWIFT - SignWriting Editor

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 3, 2013

Hello Claudia and Fabrizio!
This is fabulous news, to have a fourth computer program for SignWriting that is modern and up-to-date and still being developed - THANK YOU to you both for making this possible.

It is good for SignWriting that it works differently than the other three programs - Each program has its own style and brings a new way of thinking to users. Our SignWriting community is very fortunate to have choices…

The four programs that use the ISWA 2010 are:

SignPuddle
Delegs
SignWriter Studio
SWift

Wow!

I will read Fabrizio's message next ;-)

Val ;-)

PS. Claudia & Fabrizio - I hope we can meet next summer at the SignWriting Symposium 2014, which we hope to present in June or July or August in La Jolla, California?… I will be writing a message to the List about the 2014 plans as soon as I know more…


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On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:41 AM, Claudia S. Bianchini <chiadu14 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Hi Maria
> sorry for the late answer but I was on holidays in Peru (wonderfull trip!!!!)
> 1) the program is online, not available for download but available to use (even if it is not a "full public" version, cause we are still working on it... some features ar not finished yet)... maybe you can write to Fabrizio Borgia (in CC), the software developper, to ask where you can see it by your eyes (I use a "personal" version on a specific website, but is my research working space, so if you add signs you will change my statistics)
> 2) SWift is very different from SignPuddle... it has the same use, so you can compose signs in SW, but the architecture of the software is brand new and also the organisation of the glyphes of SW (is organised on my classification... see my phd thesis). So it doesn't work with a system of "chineses box" ad SignPuddle, but with a "dicotomic" choosing system... you also have new features as the "ad hoc" glyphes composition (see my thesis)... is hard to explain by mail... you will see when Fabrizio will tell you the website.
> 3) you can do both, single signs and text
> hope the answer will satisfy you
> :-)
> Claudia
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> 2013/8/27 maria galea <signwriting.maria at gmail.com>
> Hi Claudia, 
> I have read your paper on SWIFT - however i need to clarify. 1) is the program available for download? 2) what makes it different to SignPuddle? From what I read they seem to be very similar programs. 3) is it for the editing of single signs only or can you produce SW text?
> thank you very much for your help!
> maria
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> Claudia S. Bianchini, PhD
> A.T.E.R. Licence SDL-LSF @ Univ. Poitiers (France)
> chiadu14 at gmail.com

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