[Sw-l] Multilingual sign dictionary with SignWriting

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 27, 2022

Hi Steve -
I am so glad you re-explained this to me and everyone here on the SignWriting List. This is a major accomplishment, Steve, giving others the chance to work with SignWriting in a new and better way. Thank you for this development.

So for those who are creating your own sites and programs, Steve has developed tools for you to use that make it faster and also more standardized around the world… if I understand it correctly, this new dictionary site is using:

the Sutton SignWriting packages
which help people develop new applications for SignWriting.

Go to:
https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/#production

Steve explains below its benefits -

So glad programmers and designers have found your new work, Steve!

Val ;-)

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> On Sep 27, 2022, at 8:47 AM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi Val,
> 
> The dictionary is beautiful, I agree.  I was looking a little deeper into the site and I was happy to see that they are using the @sutton-signwriting/font-db package.
> * https://sign.dictio.info
> 
> The major benefit of using this package is that they can add new SignWriting using text rather than having to create and upload new images.  In a practical sense, the sign I linked in my original message requires 0.086 KB of text opposed to an 8 KB image.  The images are generated as needed, so any sign that can be written with Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) is possible.
> 
> I'm glad the new Sutton SignWriting packages are helping people develop new applications for SignWriting.
> * https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/#production
> 
> Very cool!
> -Steve

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> 
> On 9/27/22 10:09 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>> SignWriting List
>> September 27, 2022
>> 
>> Hi Steve and everyone!
>> 
>> This is a beautiful new dictionary using video and SignWriting to write the videos, and I believe this is from Masaryk University, which is in the Czech Republic… Thank you to everyone invovled. It is gorgeous. Thanks Steve for telling us about it…
>> 
>> Here is a screen capture of one of the screens
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>> Val ;-)
>> 
>> __________
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>>> On Sep 27, 2022, at 6:40 AM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi SignWriting List,
>>> 
>>> Interesting site I found yesterday that uses SignWriting: https://www.dictio.info
>>> 
>>> It is a "Multilingual dictionary focused on sign languages" with 158,357 entries and 53,970 translations.  Reading the about page, it's been around for many years.
>>> 
>>> Looking at the SignWriting images, they are using Formal SignWriting in ASCII and the style string.  Very cool.
>>> https://sign.dictio.info/fsw/sign/png/M531x653S16c26510x588S2880d505x618S2880b507x567S14c20487x532S18520480x638S34c00482x483-CG_white_
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Steve
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