• Contents
  • Index
  • Search
  • About SooSL™
    • About this help file
    • The SooSL team
    • Thanks! (Acknowledgments)
    • What's new in recent versions?
    • License
    • Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Support: Contact us and send feedback
    • Report internal errors in SooSL (D)
  • Get started with SooSL
    • Get started with SooSL Web (W)
      • The SooSL menu bar (W)
      • Sign up and log in to SooSL Web (W)
      • Open a different web dictionary (W)
    • Get started with SooSL Desktop (D)
      • Install, run, update, and uninstall SooSL on Windows (D)
      • Install, run, update, and uninstall SooSL on Mac (D)
      • Install, run, update, and uninstall SooSL on Linux (D)
      • The startup dialog (D)
      • Import a dictionary from a ZooZL file (D)
    • Exit SooSL
  • Signs in a dictionary
    • Normal mode (W): 1-, 2-, and 3-columns
    • Normal mode (D)
    • Video playback
    • Senses and glosses
    • Example sentences and translations
    • Notes
    • Extra videos and images
    • Sign parameters
      • Major sign types
      • Handshapes
      • Locations
      • Motion
      • Face/head/body (non-manuals)
  • Search for signs
    • Search by word (gloss)
      • Signs without glosses
    • Search by parameter
    • Search by dialect
  • Manage dictionary projects (D)
    • Open a dictionary project (D)
    • Start a new dictionary project (D)
      • Decide what you want in the dictionary (D)
      • Record some video files (D)
      • Set up a new project in SooSL (D)
    • Work together on a dictionary project (D)
    • The Locate (Dictionary) Directory dialog (D)
    • Open files across a local area network (LAN) (D)
    • Share a dictionary project with other people (D)
      • Export a dictionary to a ZooZL file (D)
      • Publish a dictionary project on SooSL Web (D)
      • Upload a new version to SooSL Web (D)
      • Manage your dictionaries on SooSL Web
    • Keep spare copies (backups) of dictionary projects (D)
    • Delete a dictionary project (D)
  • The whole dictionary
    • General information about a dictionary
      • Edit general information about a dictionary (D)
    • Written languages
      • Fonts and keyboards for written languages
    • Dialects
      • Edit the list of dialects (D)
    • Grammar categories
      • Edit the list of grammar categories (D)
    • Meaning categories
    • Statistics
  • Edit mode: Edit signs in a dictionary project (D)
    • Add a new sign (D)
      • Re-use a video for a new sign (D)
    • Delete a sign (D)
    • Edit glosses for a sign (D)
      • More than one gloss for a sense (D)
      • Clarify a gloss with a clarifying comment
    • Add or edit senses for a sign (D)
      • Change the order of a sign's senses (D)
    • Delete a sense from a sign (D)
    • Change a sense's grammar category (D)
    • Change a sense's dialect(s) (D)
    • Add or edit an example sentence (D)
      • Re-use an example sentence for a different sign (D)
    • Delete an example sentence (D)
    • Add or edit notes (D)
    • Delete notes (D)
    • Add an extra video or image (D)
    • Delete extra videos or images (D)
    • Index a sign by parameters (D)
      • Index by sign type (D)
      • Index by handshape (D)
      • Index by location (D)
      • Index by motion (D)
      • Index by face/head/body (D)
    • Replace a video (D)
    • Exit edit mode (D)
  • Other ways to use SooSL (D)
    • Compare different sign languages (D)
    • Provide meanings in a sign language (D)
    • Make a directory of people's name signs (D)
  • Lexicography (D)
  • Glossary of key terms
  • Miscellaneous
    • Computer requirements
      • Pointing devices
    • Display language
    • Keyboard shortcuts (D)
    • SooSL program and project files (D)
    • Characters in file names (D)
  • ###
  • ???
  • abbreviation for focal dialect
  • about dictionary
  • about project
  • about SooSL
  • Academic presentations
  • acknowledgments
  • add dialect
  • add example sentence
  • add extra videos/images
  • add gloss
  • add grammar category
  • add language
  • add notes
  • add sense
  • add sign
  • add written language
  • Apple Mac
  • archives (zoozl, zip)
  • ASL
  • backup
  • Bible
  • bibliography
  • bilingual dictionary
  • blank screen
  • body map
  • camera for video
  • change column width
  • change log
  • change video
  • characters in filenames
  • choose a dictionary
  • clarifying comment
  • column width
  • columns in SooSL Web
  • compare sign languages
  • computer requirements
  • computer screen
  • contact us
  • contributors to SooSL
  • cooperate on a dictionary project
  • counts of signs, senses, or glosses
  • crash
  • crash report
  • create a dictionary
  • creators of dictionaries
  • D vs. W in help topic titles
  • deaf
  • Debian Linux
  • definitions in a sign language
  • delete dialect
  • delete example sentence
  • delete extra video/image
  • delete grammar category
  • delete notes
  • delete project
  • delete sense
  • delete sign
  • delete them manually
  • delete written language
  • deletion password
  • demonstration (demo) ASL dictionary project
  • detail view
  • developers of SooSL
  • dialect
  • dictionary project
  • directory of name signs
  • directory structure
  • display language
  • download SooSL Desktop
  • Dropbox
  • edit dialects
  • edit gloss
  • edit grammar categories
  • edit mode
  • edit notes
  • edit project information
  • edit signs
  • edit written languages
  • email
  • error
  • error report
  • example sentence
  • exit edit mode
  • exit SooSL
  • export a dictionary project
  • extra videos and images
  • face/head/body
  • feedback
  • file formats
  • file manager
  • file sharing (synchronization) service
  • filenames
  • find signs
  • find with dialects
  • find with handshape, location etc.
  • find with parameters
  • find with words/glosses
  • focal dialect
  • folder structure
  • font
  • further reading
  • general information about a dictionary project
  • general-purpose dictionary
  • get started
  • gloss
  • gloss list
  • glossary
  • GNU public license
  • GNU/Linux
  • Google Drive
  • grammar category
  • handshape
  • hard disk space
  • hearing
  • help
  • http://web.soosl.net
  • IBus
  • import a dictionary project
  • improve a dictionary
  • index
  • install SooSL Desktop
  • interface language
  • jpg
  • JSON
  • key terms
  • keyboard
  • keyboard shortcuts
  • keyboard switching
  • Keyman
  • LAN (local area network)
  • language
  • legal
  • lexicography
  • license
  • light-bulb
  • Linux
  • local area network (LAN)
  • Locate (Dictionary) Directory dialog
  • locations
  • log in to SooSL Web
  • Mac
  • major sign type
  • make a dictionary
  • make videos
  • map drive
  • meaning category
  • meanings in a sign language
  • memory
  • menu bar in SooSL Web
  • merge two dictionaries
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Mighty Mouse
  • missing glosses
  • monolingual dictionary
  • motion parameter
  • mouse
  • mouth shapes and movements
  • mov
  • movements
  • mp4
  • multilingual dictionary
  • multiple glosses
  • multiple senses
  • name signs
  • network
  • network drive
  • no dictionary
  • no glosses
  • no internet connection
  • nonmanuals
  • normal file dialogs
  • normal mode
  • notes
  • numbers
  • one-button mouse
  • OneDrive
  • open dictionary
  • open project
  • operating system (OS)
  • OS
  • overview of SooSL
  • parameters of signs
  • parts of speech
  • password for deletion
  • path movement
  • pause
  • permissions
  • personal information policy
  • personnel directory
  • phone
  • photos or SignWriting
  • pictures
  • plan a dictionary
  • playback video
  • png
  • privacy policy
  • private dictionary
  • project
  • project name
  • project permissions
  • protect project
  • publish a dictionary
  • read-only project
  • read-write project
  • record videos
  • references
  • release notes
  • religious terms
  • reorder senses
  • replace video
  • Reset display
  • resize columns/windows
  • results
  • re-use a video
  • right click
  • save files
  • screen
  • screen-size
  • search
  • search by dialect
  • search by handshape, location etc.
  • search by parameter
  • search by word (gloss)
  • security
  • semantic category
  • semi-colon
  • send feedback
  • sense
  • senses
  • sentence
  • settings
  • settings files
  • share dictionary project files
  • sign language name
  • sign parameter
  • sign type
  • sign up for a user account
  • SIGN VARIETY
  • signed explanation
  • signed sentence
  • signs without glosses
  • SignWriting
  • SIL International
  • software technologies used in SooSL
  • SooSL development team
  • SooSL Web vs. SooSL Desktop
  • SooSL website
  • soosl.ini
  • source code
  • spare copies
  • special-purpose dictionary
  • start a new dictionary project
  • startup dialog
  • statistics
  • status bar
  • strange behavior
  • strong side
  • studio
  • support
  • Tab key
  • tablet
  • tabs
  • technical signs
  • technologies used in SooSL
  • terms of use
  • thanks
  • timecodes
  • title
  • toolbar
  • touch
  • touchpad
  • touchscreen
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • Unicode
  • uninstall
  • update
  • upload a dictionary to SooSL Web
  • USB data stick
  • use a video again
  • use existing file
  • Use the Page Up/Down keys
  • user account
  • users
  • video
  • video camera
  • video studio
  • videos, making videos for SooSL
  • W vs. D in help topic titles
  • warranty
  • Wasta Linux
  • weak side
  • web browser
  • Web vs. Desktop (SooSL)
  • what's new
  • Windows
  • word class
  • work together on a dictionary
  • written language
  • zoozl file