[Sw-l] [SPAM] Re: [SW-L] signEditor

[Uta Meißner]

oh, thank you very much.

If I want to write a new sign, I can all symbols?

Only if I want to find a sign, there are not all symbols available? Right?

Greetings Uta


On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 10:45 PM Stephen Slevinski <slevin at signpuddle.net>
wrote:

>
>
> On 2/9/22 10:11 AM, Uta Meißner wrote:
>
> @Steve I have seen that for DGS not all symbols are used. There was
> probably someone who made decisions. Can it be revised?
>
>
> If you are talking about the SignMaker symbol palette, this is based on
> the symbols that are used in the respective dictionary.  If the symbol
> isn't used in the dictionary, it is not available in the respective
> alphabetic subset. The subsets are regenerated every night.
>
> - the grouping of hand shapes by numbers in ASL is not suitable for DGS I
> think. I have observed that many always had to search for a long time for a
> hand shape. That's why we decided not to have a group and show all 30
> phonemes (main handshapes) right away. We just didn't find a better
> grouping that we are satisfied with.
>
>
> For SignMaker, it is possible to restructure the symbol palette.  Here is
> the one for German Sign Language.
> http://signbank.org/signmaker/config/alphabet/alphabet-gsg.js
>
> If you look inside, you'll see entries like this:
>
>  S10000: ["S10000", "S10110", "S10210", "S10310", "S10410", "S10510", "S10610", "S10710", "S10a10", "S10b10", "S10c10"],
>
> So the first entry in the symbol palette is "S10000".  The array contains the symbols you can find in that group.  If you wanted to restructure this group, you could create a new object with different top levels and different arrays underneath.
>
> -Steve
>
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