[Sw-l] Using LaTeX for SignWriting

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
February 27, 2021

Hello David -
Thank you for posting your PDF document “Introduction to fswtotext”. The SignWriting List software was able to accept the PDF very well and it opened for me and I have skimmed it and all I can say is - “wonderful” (attached is an ASL sign for WONDERFUL)



This morning I had a Zoom meeting with Steve Slevinski and we chatted about your work, programming with LaTeX, something new to me. I am not a programmer but I am amazed at how many programming opportunities there are, such as LaTeX  - how fortunate we are to have these tools.

And thank you for working on your program, with our SignWriting fonts, converting text to SignWriting using fsw.

This is an amazing development on github. I really enjoyed reading your discussion of Why SignWriting? Glad to know SignWriting works for you. Thank you for posting this SignWritingLaTeX github site:

https://github.com/dazitzel/SignWritingLaTeX
And I understand that you write on an ASL blog? And you are working with ASL University online? What is the link to the ASL Blog?

So I look forward to our future - this seems very promising -

Val ;-)

PS. Have a great day, everyone - here in San Diego the weather is so amazing - it is like Spring - a new beginning for the world!

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> On Feb 27, 2021, at 7:44 AM, David Zitzelsberger <dazitzel at LIVE.COM> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how well pdf attachments work through the list, but I have attached the pdf file that Valerie suggested I might share. If that doesn't work, perhaps it will convince me to push it to my github account and share it that way.
> 
> Steve gave me a bit to think about regarding this, but I opted to share it as I provided it to them rather than wait.
> 
> Anyway, I have a program that reads Formal SignWriting text and makes LaTeX code out of it relying on the SignWriting fonts Steve published.
> 
> I've been coding and testing for my own purposes but was finally able to give it a much more extensive test by making https://scribblingsonasl.wordpress.com/king-james-and-asl-bible/ <https://scribblingsonasl.wordpress.com/king-james-and-asl-bible/> with many thanks to Pastor Dettloff for permission to use his work in making these files.
> 
> That worked so well that I wrote the attached document in an attempt to provide a less technical start to using it with a couple examples of SignWriting only text and a couple examples of SignWriting mixed with horizontal text.
>  

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