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"T. Shellabarger" Date: Sat Jun 19, 1999 5:55 pm Subject: Re: Typing Left-Handed SignWriting | ||||||||
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>From: Valerie Sutton >On Thu, 27 May 1999 Wayne Smith wrote: >>Could there be a >>Ctrl-Something key that will completely reverse a given sign or (better yet) >>a given group of signs or even a complete document so that it would reflect >>how a left-handed signer might produce the signs? >What an interesting suggestion :-) I glad you think so. Half my immediate family is lefthanded, and one of the other half is ambidextrous. (-: There are also many cousins, nieces, and nephews who are lefthanded as well... >Actually, to program an "automatic switch", in SignWriter 5.0, from >right-handed signs to left-handed signs, might be expensive and >time-consuming to program...and I don't even know if the feature would be >that useful. We can always re-type the left-handed version the slow way if >we need to. So the lefthanded person would just learn to type the way they see signs rather than the way they express them? Sounds rather reminiscent of a lot of other workarounds in life for "lefties." Workable but... >I would be worried that the "automatic switch" from right to left would not >always leave you with an accurate document. For example, the hands would >flop, but the facial expressions would not...or would they? So...it might >open up programming problems and some linguistic problems as well. I suppose one could program which features would be "flippable" and which wouldn't. That part seems rather trivial to me. (But then I'm not a programmer.) Seems to me the problem is money, not feasibility. >Meanwhile, there are not that many left-handed documents, since there are >not that many left-handed signers :-) Oh, I don't know. I meet them often, I'm so used to it that I forget to notice. (-: Therese Shellabarger - https:/www.concentric.net/~tlshell/ Shalom chaverot! | ||||||||
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