[Sw-l] Digitizing SignWriting DOS Keyboards

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
February 3, 2022

Hello SignWriting List, and Amit,
Thank you Amit for working on special software for writing fingerspelling from different countries in a quick and easy way related to online transcriptions.

And many thanks to Steve Slevinski, for FSW, and the Fingerspeller program in SignPuddle Online.

I know you need some special files - the fingerspelling characters in FSW from different countries, listed in FSW format (computer sources). This will help with your software development.

So just now I completed the FSW for Fingerspelling for LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language). Changes may need to be made later. There are different ways to fingerspell and individual writers in Brazil write fingerspelling a little differently, so I based this file on the old SignWriter DOS fingerspelling keyboard for Brazil, plus made a few changes based on new entries in SignPuddle by other more recent writers. Brazilians are very active SignWriters. Thank you, beautiful Brazil ;-)

Please see attached, the Brazilian Fingerspelling Keyboard from SignWriter DOS, and the FSW file in .txt format.

Val ;-)


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> On Jan 31, 2022, at 9:49 AM, Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, this is very helpful, and I can use it in the txt file format.
> Cool fingerspelling stuff coming soon ;)
> 
> Amit
> 
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> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 5:29 AM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> January 29, 2022
> 
> Dear Amit, Steve and everyone on the SW List:
> 
> I have completed a text file that lists the FSW for German-Swiss Fingerspelling, based on the old SignWriter DOS Fingerspelling Keyboard for German-Swiss Sign Language (DSGS). The attached text file with the FSW does not include numbers or punctuation, only the alphabetic fingerspelling characters.
> 
> All of these characters are entered in SignPuddle Online in the German-Swiss Sign Language Dictionary, under the search-text word ?Fingeralphabeth". The attached text file includes instruction on how to find the symbols in SignPuddle.
> 
> Please see 2 attached files, the graphic keyboard design and the FSW text file. Hope you can use this, Amit? If yes, I can do other countries, if this is useful.
> 
> Val ;-)


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