[Sw-l] Digitizing SignWriting DOS Keyboards

[Carlos Cristian Libras]

I understand, and I really feel the need to add the new symbols, even
though there are few current writers in Portugal.
For example the number 8 written on this keyboard leads the reader to think
that it is a shape and in fact it is quite different, this can be harmful
to the dissemination of SW there, so I see the need to improve this.


But I understand that everything happens at the right time.

I await your contact in private about the edition of books in Libras, I am
always ready to serve you.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:21 PM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
wrote:

> SignWriting List
> February 9, 2022
>
> Hello Carlos!
> I think you're posting about the LGP fingerspelling is very interesting
> because we worked really hard on two different versions of that
> fingerspelling keyboard. The original keyboard for SignWriter DOS looked a
> certain way. Here is the graphic of the original Portuguese fingerspelling
> keyboard.
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> But then it got changed by a group of interpreters from Portugal who
> worked with Steve in the Fingerspeller program that Steve developed in
> SignPuddle 2. The Portuguese fingerspelling is different I believe in
> Fingerspeller, and it does not include any numbers.
>
> Lots of fun, right?
>
> And regarding developing new hand symbols to be added to the current hand
> symbols in the ISWA 2010, we have so many hundreds that we're going to have
> to find one that is close to what they are fingerspelling and then someday
> we can add an addendum of new symbols to the ISWA 2010 that are not a part
> of Unicode of course. This is all very complex and takes funding because we
> have thousands and thousands of symbols already and writing can become
> standardized if we choose to say " this is the way it looks in real life
> but this is close enough that we can use a symbol that's already there".
> That would be to their advantage if they could choose that. However we do
> know that we need to add more symbols it just may take another decade
> that's all.
>
> So if they would like to form a new committee to try a third version of
> Portuguese fingerspelling that's perfectly fine with me, and I hope it's
> fine with the programmers! Thank you for your input.
>
> Carlos - I actually need your help with two books from Brazil that have
> just been written in SignWriting and they need reviewers. Because I don't
> know LIBRAS I think it's important that somebody from Brazil works with me
> on editing their books. I'll write to you privately about it. Thank you so
> much.
>
> Val ;-)
>
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> On Feb 9, 2022, at 4:47 AM, Carlos Cristian Libras <
> carloscristianlibras at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> I would like to inform you that in Portuguese Sign Language ( LGP ) there
> are some problems.
> There are some letters and numbers that are not correct in the system, so
> it can be dangerous to copy them blindly.
>
> The number 8 for example in LGP doesn't have a SignPudlle configuration
> to represent exactly how we do it.
> I made a video on one of my channels and two portuguese ones showed me
> that the writing is not faithful to the real signage, because it doesn't
> have the hand configuration in the signpudle yet.
>
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