[Sw-l] Canonical way of representing signwriting programmatically

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 15, 2021

Hello Jennica -
Welcome to the SignWriting List - and I see Steve has answered your question about Fonts.

Tell us a little bit about your project, Jennica - If we can help we are here for you -

I started remembering our old SW Fingerspelling Fonts from two decades ago, which are still available for download on the web:

https://www.signwriting.org/catalog/sw214.html <https://www.signwriting.org/catalog/sw214.html>

I am not even sure these old Fingerspelling fonts are still working so I will test them later - our web sites go back to 1996 and there are lots of older links that need to be cleaned...

There are software programs that use SignWriting symbols … for example

SignPuddle Online
https://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/ <https://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/>

SignWriter Studio
https://www.signwriterstudio.com

Rand keyboard
https://swkb-35431.firebaseapp.com <https://swkb-35431.firebaseapp.com/>

There are programs and apps from Germany:

DELEGS
https://delegs.de <https://delegs.de/>
https://delegs.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/delegsEditor.jpg <https://delegs.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/delegsEditor.jpg>

and older programs, such as:

SignWriter DOS (1986-1996) but still works with DOSBox
https://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/sw44/download/ <https://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/sw44/download/>

SignWriter Java
https://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/sw50/download/download01.html <https://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/sw50/download/download01.html>

And so many more -

Look forward to learning more about your work -

Val ;-)

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> On Apr 15, 2021, at 3:44 PM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jennica,
> 
> You can check out a few YouTube videos if you want.
> * https://stream.signwriting.org <https://stream.signwriting.org/>
> 
> References can be found here:
> * https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting-07#section-3.3 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting-07#section-3.3>
> * https://slevinski.github.io/SuttonSignWriting/components/svg.html <https://slevinski.github.io/SuttonSignWriting/components/svg.html>
> 
> You may be interested in the SignWriting Web Components.
> * https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sutton-signwriting/sgnw-components <https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sutton-signwriting/sgnw-components>
> 
> When creating SVG images for SignWriting, there are two packages you can use.
> * https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sutton-signwriting/font-ttf <https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sutton-signwriting/font-ttf>
> * https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sutton-signwriting/font-db <https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sutton-signwriting/font-db>
> 
> font-ttf is used in the browser and uses TTF files to view the images.
> 
> font-db is used in node and uses a database to create stand-alone svg images.
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve
> 
> On 4/15/21 3:37 PM, Jennica Pounds wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm interested in using SignWriting programmatically. Poking around the Internet, it seems like fonts aren't quite there, and creating SignWriting text is done via computer-aided SVGs. 
>> 
>> Is that correct? If so, where can I see the latest SVG/XML specifications? 
>> 
>> Jennica
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