[Sw-l] January 2017 - Report from Steve's desk

[Jonathan Duncan]

Hi Steve,

     The work you are doing with the Universal Shaping Engine looks very 
interesting, to be able to have Signwriting signs clustered properly and 
sign text flow outside of the browser in most of the major operating 
systems.

     I have a question if in the meantime the SignWriting 2010 and 
sw10.js will it be completely replaced by  Sutton SignWriting and 
SuttonSignWriting.js.

     Are you planning on replacing it in SignMaker2015? What plans do 
you have for SignMaker 2015?

Wish you the best with your projects.

Regards,

Jonathan

On 2017-01-12 7:40 AM, Stephen Slevinski wrote:
> Hi SignWriting List,
>
> Happy New Year to all.  I have lots to share and I hope you do too.
>
> First, I'm happy to celebrate 5 years of stability with Formal 
> SignWriting: the computer encoding of Sutton SignWriting.  I have a 
> new internet draft available that contains all of the technical 
> information about the specification.
> * https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting
>
> Second, I'd like to announce a new effort for Unicode.  Section 4 of 
> the document above contains a new design that builds on the 672 
> Unicode characters that have already been accepted.  The new design 
> completes the script encoding with an additional 17 characters. I've 
> put together a brief presentation available online.
> * http://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/signwriting-in-unicode-next
>
> Third, the Center for Sutton Movement Writing is working on a grant 
> proposal from the Wikimedia Foundation.  The grant involves the 
> creation of a 2-D font that will work with the new Unicode design. The 
> new font will be the key component of the official submission to the 
> Unicode Technical Committee for the 17 new characters.
> * 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/slevinski/ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting
>
> Fourth, the Sutton SignWriting project is a nice collection of 
> resources that explain and leverage the state of the art for using 
> SignWriting online.
> * https://slevinski.github.io/SuttonSignWriting/
>
> 2017 is going to be another great year for SignWriting.  Warmest 
> wishes to all.
>
> Regards,
> -Steve
>
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