hamlin@ral.rpi.edu (Gregory Hamlin) (02/28/91)
Does anyone know of any fonts available which depict the finger spelling
alphabet? How about American Sign Language or Signed English? My
mother teaches a class in sign language, and would like to make up
worksheets and flash cards for the students. Postscript, fig, or other
representations would be useful, also. Thanks
Greg Hamlin
hamlin@ral.rpi.eduwilcox@hydra.unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox) (03/02/91)
In article <2#4-Q1-@rpi.edu> hamlin@ral.rpi.edu (Gregory Hamlin) writes: >Does anyone know of any fonts available which depict the finger spelling >alphabet? How about American Sign Language or Signed English? My >mother teaches a class in sign language, and would like to make up >worksheets and flash cards for the students. Postscript, fig, or other >representations would be useful, also. Thanks > > There is a fingerspelling font available from sumex. It is called something like AMSLAN, but it is really fingerspelling. I have in the past seen implementations of Stokoe notation on the Mac but don't know where you could get a copy. Emerson & Sterns, in San Diego, developed an ASL orthography a couple of years back, including a Mac font (called SignFont). It is available from a commercial distributor in Washington state, I believe, but can't recall their name. You could track it down by contact E&S. You should realize, as I mentioned, that this is a true orthography of ASL -- a phonemic based, alphabetic writing system. I.e., it would probably be of very limited use to your mother and her sign language students. Also, it would be of limited use in writing Signed English, since it is designed to include only ASL phonemes; Signed English uses an overlapping but typically different set of primes (especially, for example, handshapes). Hope this helped a bit. Sherman Wilcox, Ph.D. Dept of Linguistics University of New Mexico