Sign Processing Workshop
Lisbon, May 30, 2004

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW "SIGNWRITER" PROGRAM

by Daniel Thomas
Ulrich Noelpp

Abstract
...A SignWriter Java 1.5/Swing program as the successor to SignWriter DOS programmed by Richard Gleaves is being developed in the new Java 1.5 (Tiger) version using the Swing graphical user interface library. The existing SignWriter DOS program is a simple, yet powerful program for typing and editing SignWriting texts. As many school children, teachers and linguists are already using this program for their everyday work, it is important that the typing conventions are not changed very much. Support for the SGN files (SignWriter DOS file format for SignWriting texts) is important as well. In a summary, former users shouldn't need to change their way of working with SignWriting or not very much...

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Daniel Noelpp
d.noelpp@gmx.ch

SignWriter Tiger Project
https://www.signwriter.org