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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Jan 12, 2000 11:41 pm Subject: Printing & Creating SW Dictionaries, Part 3 | |
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I´m doing this for my little pupils first class as well. I´m very interested in your materials as they give me ideas how to check out other ways to enrich our classroom materials. Would love to see from you more! Thanks for sharing....Stefan ,-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ January 12, 2000 Dear SignWriting List Members, and Dawn and Stefan - If you are preparing dictionaries for your students now, outside of the SignWriter Computer Program, then I would suggest looking at sample pages of the Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary: Sample Pages From The Brazilian Dictionary https://www.SignWriting.org/brazil04.html https://www.SignWriting.org/brazil05.html Those dictionary pages were composed in Microsoft Word...I had a little experience with this first hand, since over the summer I did a little editing on some of the beginning pages of the dictionary. The pages were sent to me as attached files, one at a time, in Microsoft Word in Windows, and my Macintosh version of Microsoft Word opened the Windows files with no conversion necessary - it was completely cross platform...that I think is really remarkable. And of course there are many good word processors that can do something similar... In regards to the dictionary and how the pages were created....you can see by the samples that they hired a professional illustrator to not only draw the way the signs are produced, but also a cartoon picturing the meaning of the sign. Then they included spoken language words to describe the meaning and motion, and then SignWriting ...so one sign is given 5 different forms of explanation. And this was easily done in Microsoft Word by creating a graphics strip or panel and filling it with diagrams. The SignWriting was typed with the SignWriter Computer Program. Then .GIFs were made of each sign, and pasted into the Microsoft Word document. So that is another way to create a dictionary in SignWriting! Best - Val ;-) |
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