[Sw-l] New update for SignWriting searching, @sutton-signwriting/core v1.3.0

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 26, 2021

Hello Steve, and everyone on the SignWriting List!

Thank you, Steve, for your inspired time today, developing code in this new way. I am not a programmer, but I generally understand your description nonetheless, and it sounds like an important new development for SignWriting software developers.

I also want to thank the developers from Germany for their new projects (I believe there are 2 of them) using SignWriting and I am grateful that we can work together to continue to provide the world with written sign languages.

Steve is donating his time to SignWriting on the weekends, and works full time as a developer for the University of Iowa during the week, so  I hope people realize this and contribute to his Patreon donation page, which specifically supports SignWriting development:

https://steve.signwriting.org <https://steve.signwriting.org/>

Thank you to everyone for volunteering time, ideas, and support.

SignWriting is free to use on the internet and seems to be spreading more, thanks to Steve and all of you who are doing so much.

I look forward to learning more about new developments -

Val ;-)

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> On Jun 26, 2021, at 2:56 PM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi SignWriting list,
> 
> Today I published a new version of the @sutton-signwriting/core package, v1.3.0
> https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sutton-signwriting/core <https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sutton-signwriting/core>
> 
> The group in Germany behind the sign2mint project requested an improvement to sign searching.
> Previously, searching with query strings only works with AND searching.
> They wanted the ability to search with OR, such as symbol A OR B.
> As I was explaining why this wouldn't work, I realized I was wrong.
> You can view the conversion on Gitter.
> https://gitter.im/sutton-signwriting/community <https://gitter.im/sutton-signwriting/community>
> 
> I found the idea fascinating and I couldn't stop myself.
> Once I figured out how I could do it, I had to give it a try.
> I expanded the query string for FSW and SWU to include OR searching.
> The query strings now accept the letter 'o' to indicate OR.
> 
> I was able to spend a couple of hours this week getting ready.
> Today, I was able to finish the code during my weekend office hours.
> It took about 9 hours today, but the code is finished, tested and published.
> 
> Symbols in FSW use the symbol key, such as S10000.
> Symbols in SWU use symbol characters, such as 񀀒 which will display the actual symbol if you have the Sutton SignWriting One-D font installed.
> 
> For the sake of simplicity, I'll be referencing symbols by the letters A, B, C, and D.
> 
> QABCD - signs that include symbols A and B and C and D.
> QAoBoCoD - signs that include symbols A or B or C or D.
> QAoBCoD - signs that include symbols (A or B) and (C or D)
> QABoCD - signs that include symbols A and (B or C) and D
> 
> The OR searching works for the temporal prefix and the spatial signbox.
> You can use symbol or range definitions.
> 
> I still need to update the specification in draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting and create an episode of the SignWriting Stream to explain to new development.
> 
> Regardless, today was a good day,
> -Steve
> 
> https://steve.signwriting.org <https://steve.signwriting.org/>
> 
> 
> 
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