Re: presentations

[Guylhem Aznar <signwriting-gnome externe net>]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:29:48 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59-gal srcf ucam org> wrote:
> I'm interested in this - how are signwriting characters generally 
> entered at present? We're continuing to look at ways of entering larger 

With a mouse based system - you select the individual parts and you drag and
drop them.
Very inefficient.

> alphabets (such as Japanese kanji or Chinese) with Dasher, and it would 
> be nice if the solutions we came up with were generalisable to other 
> situations which may involve large character sets.

Could you give me some links on dasher?

Signwriting only needs 466 base symbols divided in 12 categories (that's not a
lot) but they must be combined spatially.
This spatial combination should require either a keybord or widgets to select
the category then to place the symbol on the canvas.

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