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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Jul 22, 1998 7:26 am Subject: Re: Menu question | |
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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Angus B. Grieve-Smith wrote: > Also, rather than arranging it by country, it might be better >just to have the menus available in any of the languages supported by >SignWriter. For example, I know a hearing American whose two best >languages are English and Mexican Sign Language (LSM). Why should he >need to know Spanish in order to use SignWriter? Similarly, there may >be native ASL signers who want to write BSL, but would rather have the >menus in ASL. > > So instead of having to choose from a list with only two >languages on it (once the other countries are supported), a user would >be able to choose any two languages from the fifteen signed and eight >spoken languages available. Can this be done? > >-- > -Angus B. Grieve-Smith > Linguistics Department > University of New Mexico > > __________________________________ Hi Angus - This is an excellent idea and I agree with you - The flexibility you suggest is the best. And yes, it can be done, although it may be some time before we implement everything, since our programmers are very busy people. As you know, this first beta-test version is only in one spoken language and one signed language, to see if the program is working in general, and then later we will make the program international again. Right now in SignWriter 4.3 for MS-DOS, your suggestion can be accomplished - People can work in Spanish, and use a Norwegian dictionary file. And...if they know how to "rename" a file in MS-DOS, they can fool the program into thinking that Spanish goes with Norwegian Sign Language - and you can mix and match languages. But most people do not do this because it is not "user-friendly" enough. Obviously that has to change and it has to become user-friendly. So I will follow your idea for future versions of SignWriter 5.0 - many thanks! Valerie {:-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit the SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA (619)456-0098 voice (619)456-0010 tty (619)456-0020 fax ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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