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From:  Valerie Sutton Date:  Wed Jul 15, 1998  6:12 am Subject:  Menus In Signs

July 15, 1998 Good Morning SW List! Regarding SignWriter 5.0... One of the snappy new features will be the "Menus in Signs" feature. As you know, "menus" is a computer term referring to the words at the top of the screen, such as "File", "Edit" and so forth. "Pull-down menus" have all the commands used in the program, on either the Macintosh or Windows. In SignWriter 5.0, a person can go into the "Preferences Box" and change how they view their screen. They can choose different colors...for example right now, just for fun, I have my windows pink, the paper in the background white, the symbols green, and highlighting in blue! Kind of silly - but what a difference from the old MS-DOS black screen with white symbols! In the Preferences Box you can also choose: Menus in Signs Menus in Signs and Words Menus in Words So...if you choose "Menus in Words" and your country is USA, then the words will be in English, such as File, Edit, Cut, Copy, Paste etc. If your country is Spain, the words will be in Spanish, etc. In this beta testing version, we will start with English, but add the other 8 spoken languages as soon as everything seems to be working well. If you choose Signs and your country is USA, then there will be no words in the menus - only ASL signs. The entire screen and all commands will be written in SignWriting, without one word on the screen. I suspect a lot of people will choose "Menus in Signs and Words", which gives you both languages - since you have to know ASL and SignWriting well to read the "Menus in Signs". Valerie Sutton :-) https://www.SignWriting.org Sutton at 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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