December 3, 2021 Software Open Access

Hanke, Thomas

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{"@context":"https://schema.org/","@id":"http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.9725","@type":"SoftwareSourceCode","creator":[{"@id":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7356-8973","@type":"Person","affiliation":"Universit\u00e4t Hamburg","name":"Hanke, Thomas"}],"datePublished":"2021-12-03","description":"<p>The HamNoSys package consists of three parts:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>HamNoSys Unicode font</li>\n\t<li>HamNoSys Keyboard layout (macOS only)</li>\n\t<li>HamNoSys Palette App</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>The documentation folder contains the macOS keyboard layout in different formats. The layout is also available as a menu item in the Palette app.</p>\n\n<p>The HamNoSys handshapes chart is available as a menu item in the app as well. If you want to try it in a web browser, you find the German and English version in this distribution.</p>\n\n<p>To install on macOS:</p>\n\n<p>Select &ldquo;Go to folder&hellip;&rdquo; from the Finder&#39;s &ldquo;Go&rdquo; menu. Type in&nbsp;<code>/Library/Fonts/</code>&nbsp;and click on &ldquo;Open&rdquo;.</p>\n\n<p>The Fonts folder opens. Drag the file&nbsp;<code>HamNoSysUnicode.ttf</code>&nbsp;here. (You may be asked to provide an administrator&#39;s password to get this done.)</p>\n\n<p>Now switch to the enclosing folder (called&nbsp;<code>Library</code>) by choosing &ldquo;Enclosing Folder&rdquo; from the Finder&#39;s &ldquo;Go&rdquo; menu.</p>\n\n<p>Within that folder, you should find a subfolder called&nbsp;<code>Keyboard Layouts</code>. If it does not exist, create it.</p>\n\n<p>Move the file&nbsp;<code>HamNoSys.bundle</code>&nbsp;into that folder.</p>\n\n<p>Finally, move the&nbsp;<code>HamNoSys Palette.app</code>&nbsp;into the&nbsp;<code>Programs</code>&nbsp;folder.</p>\n\n<p>(If you prefer, you can also install to&nbsp;<code>~/Library/Fonts</code>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<code>~/Library/Keyboard Layouts</code>, in which case the font and the keyboard layout are only available to the currently logged-in user.)</p>\n\n<p>Open the System Preferences and switch to Keyboard. Select the &ldquo;Input Sources&rdquo; tab and select &ldquo;Show Input menu in menu bar&rdquo;.</p>\n\n<p>Now click the &ldquo;+&rdquo; button in the bottom left of the window. Choose &ldquo;Others&rdquo; in the left pane, and then &ldquo;HamNoSys&rdquo; on the right. Click &ldquo;Add&rdquo;.</p>\n\n<p>Now you find the HamNoSys key layout in Input menu in the right part of the menu bar. (You can also rotate through the active keyboards by pressing command-space and keeping the command pressed.)</p>\n\n<p>(In older versions of macOS you find the Input Sources in the &rdquo;Language and Text&rdquo; or &ldquo;International&rdquo; system preference.)</p>\n\n<p>Now you can launch the app HamNoSys Palette.</p>\n\n<p>In the HamNoSys window, you can type a HamNoSys string.</p>\n\n<p>If you are familiar with the HamNoSys keyboard layout, switch to it with cmd-space or choose HamNoSys from the Input Menu. Otherwise, just click on the five-fingers button to open the palette of HamNoSys symbols. The symbols are distributed over six panels corresponding to the context they are most often used in.</p>\n\n<p>If you have entered a valid HamNoSys string, you may want to check it by sending it to the avatar: Just click on the avatar button once you have launched the SiGML Service Player. (If you have not yet installed the JASigning avatar player, you find it at&nbsp;<code>http://vh.cmp.uea.ac.uk/index.php/JASigning</code>.)</p>\n\n<p>Via the &ldquo;File&rdquo; menu, you can open the HamNoSys Handshapes chart as well as a table of all HamNoSys characters.</p>\n\n<p>To install on Windows:</p>\n\n<p>Move the&nbsp;<code>HamNoSys Palette</code>&nbsp;folder to your Applications folder. To start the program, open&nbsp;<code>HamNoSys Palette.exe</code>&nbsp;within that folder.</p>\n\n<p>To install on Linux:</p>\n\n<p>Movie the&nbsp;<code>HamNoSys Palette</code>&nbsp;folder to your Applications folder. To start the program, open&nbsp;<code>HamNoSys Palette</code>&nbsp;within that folder.</p>\n\n<p>Web font</p>\n\n<p>In the folder&nbsp;<code>web</code>&nbsp;you find the HamNoSys font in the usual webfont formats as well as a css style sheet showing how to use them. The HamNoSysInput.html shows the same layout as the palette app on a web page, but cannot command the avatar.</p>\n\n<p>Changing the keys in the HamNoSys Palette app</p>\n\n<p>If you want to add more keys to the palette or just re-arrange the existing ones, that is easy to achieve. In the&nbsp;<code>Preferences</code>&nbsp;folder, you find the file <code>de.uni-hamburg.sign-lang.hamnosys-palette-layout.txt</code>. Open it with any text editor.</p>\n\n<p>The first line is a scaling factor applying to all button sizes and positions.</p>\n\n<p>All the other lines define one button each, they consist of three numbers and a text, separated by tabs.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The first column is the panel the button shall appear on (numbered from left to right starting with 1).</li>\n\t<li>The second and third column are the x and y coordinate of the button.</li>\n\t<li>The fourth column is the names of the HamNoSys characters to be assigned to the button, separated by commas.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>In case of any problems, please contact us at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:hamnosys-helpdesk@sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de\">hamnosys-helpdesk@sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de</a>.</p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<p>Copyright 1989-2022 Universit&auml;t Hamburg</p>","identifier":"http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.9725","inLanguage":{"@type":"Language","alternateName":"eng","name":"English"},"keywords":["HamNoSys","font","keyboard layout","Unicode"],"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"HamNoSys","url":"https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/9725","version":"4.1.7"}