[sw-l] International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) in finished ;-)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 4, 2008

Dear SignWriting List:

Today, Sept. 4, 2008, I finalized the International SignWriting  
Alphabet (ISWA 2008).

It has been a labor of love on my part for several years, and all this  
year, in 2008, I have been working on it steadily. There are so many  
variations of sizes and nuances of symbols when writing SignWriting by  
hand, and it has been difficult, to capture all of those nuances in  
computers all these years. The ISWA is our best attempt to date.

Although there can always be another handshape here and there, needed  
at a later date, generally I feel that the ISWA 2008 is a far better  
symbolset that the currently used IMWA, and I am so happy that shortly  
the ISWA will be available for use.

Right now, Steve is still developing the new software. I completed the  
ISWA at 2:00 this morning. Steve will help me check it for any  
conversion issues, although I doubt there will be any problems, since  
it has been converting beautifully all along...

Now I am writing documentation teaching the ISWA. Attached is Chapter  
2 from the new ISWA Manual I am writing now, which has not been posted  
on the web yet.

Chapter 2 shows the 30 Symbol Groups of the ISWA (the visual mapping):

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