SWIFT - SignWriting Editor

[maria galea]

Thanks Claudia - sounds interesting!
Fabrizio - can I have a look at the website, I do not intend to change or
edit anything - just to understand a bit more about SWIFT to include an
accurate description of the program in my phd.
Thank you!
Maria


On 3 September 2013 13:41, 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 <chiadu14 at gmail.comt>
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