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From:
Stefan Woehrmann2 Date: Mon Mar 19, 2001 7:39 pm Subject: | |
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Hi Patsy , thanks for your long messages. I am happy to see thatyou already started with the SignWriter 4.4 ! It's just like learning a music instrument. Just practice and practice and within a pretty short time you will become so familiar with the keyboard that you can concentrate on your ideas, on spelling-problems, on fun-activities like animated gifs -- ha Funny accident - you deleted the sign from your dictionary. Hm - The good thing about this is - you and all of us learn a lot from our mistakes !! ;-) The next good message - since the dictionary is part of the download package you have nothing to worry about. You can easily get your next dictionary ;-) But this leads us to another problem. As soons as you start to change your dictionary you will have a different one. You can't simply replace the new one (your changed 001) by the original Download version - (001) That would delete all your private changes, your own signs ... So it would be helpfull to start a complete private new dictionary on your own - If you switch during your typing work between the original 001 and for the reason to fill up your private dictionary between the two of them ( Set up Dictionary - there should be no problem !) There is the merge option to merge to different dictionaries from the same basis ( 001 for USA ) or (049 for Germany etc ) but I don ±² know about the risks - we will have to collect experiences with this ! Hi Roald some months ago you gave a hint that there is a problem with merging dictionaies - an you comment on this with a short message - if you find the time ?? Regarding your little accident : deleting cat (2) The best thing would be to check your procedure again. Just try it again and again with some other signs - It shouldn ±² happen again or all the time ! ha ! Usually all the signs stay in the dictionary unless you don ±² delete them ! Question 2 : Yes the download shareware is the complete programm. You don ±² need any other program to run all procedures with your SignWriter 4.4 (including Column-Maker and Dictionary - Manager - which is to be executed on the DOS - level !! ) Did you read the Pdf- Download files ? Within the SW 4.4 Shareware you will find some files (swhands, swmovements - .... which will help to get some ideas about the principles of SW but I strongly recommend the email- lessons and the discussions on the SW-List! You can browse through the archives www.egroups.com/group/sw-l/ and will find there lots of interesting messages! All the best and good luck Stefan ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Patsy van Andel To: Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 3:39 PM > I tried to order the "Textbook and Workbook Sign Writing" but was > told it was out of print and no longer available. Is there another > book? > > This is really a stupid situation. I used the dictionary to get the > sign for cat and chose cat(2). I don't know what happened, but it was > deleted from the dictionary. I thought I had just copied it into the > document, but when I tried to find it in the dictionary again, it > wasn't there. Why is that? Is the SW shareware a complete program or > is it only a part of what is available on the computer program? > > Thanks for the help > |
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