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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Apr 1, 2001 5:26 pm Subject: Re: Greek Sign Language Dictionary | |
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> It is nice to hear you will work for the Greek version of Signwriting. > We write from left to right in greek and the greek alphabet has 24 >characters many of which are Roman also. > I will sent you the material needed the soonest possible. > Themis SignWriting List April 1, 2001 Hello Themis - Thanks for this message. Yes, I believe I can create a Greek version of SignWriter, although I am not 100% sure about the commands and sentences that appear on the computer screen...We will have to work with that slowly to see if we can make it work properly for you. To create the Greek version of SignWriter, I will need from you: 1. A GIF or JPEG of Greek Fingerspelling typed in SignWriting, with the corresponding Greek alphabet next to each SignWriting symbol....Could you post this to the SW List? I bet people would love to see Greek fingerspelling in SignWriting. I will use this GIF later as my guide, when I create your Greek Fingerspelling Keyboard. We can also use it to create a Sutton True Type Font for Greek Fingerspelling later. 2. A keyboard map....where you want the fingerspelling symbols and the Greek alphabet to be placed on the keyboard (the standard way of typing in Greece, so if someone typed using SignWriter, the symbols would show up where you expect them to show up ;-) 3. I will need you to translate 100 English command lines into Greek that will appear on the screen. I will send you that document privately. 4. When you send me the translation, you will need to be sure to also provide me with the Greek fonts that will make it readable for me on my machine...or perhaps send me GIFs of the typed lines, so I can piece them together symbol by symbol, based on what I see in the GIFs. You never know, by the time I am done I just might know a little Greek - ha! This will take time, Themis, since my schedule is packed. Once I receive everything from you, it may take me at least a month, if not two. But I look forward to doing it...I think the Greek version will be an excellent addition to the SignWriter Computer Program in the long run .... And by the way...did you say you had questions about writing certain Greek signs in your SignWriting dictionary? Clearly I am way behind in answering everyone's questions, but if you want to send a few questions with GIFs or JPEGs to the SW List, go right ahead, and sooner or later I will get to answering your questions... And will you be using SignWriting for computational linguistics? I have been quite interested in your discussions with Antonio Carlos ... Thanks for your contributions.... -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/sw-l/ To post a message to the SW List: |
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