Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ sign language characters

[lkaestne]

Hi all,

I'm working on Sign Language and need to put some information about hand shapes in latex. I'm looking for a character that is essentially a capital G with two parallel lines on top, on top of which there are three single dots.

That is, something like the following (just in a single character):
...
=
G

I tried latex's standard symbol catalog, as well as IPA, phonetic, and convington packages -- but without luck.

Alternatively, does anyone know a set of latex symbols that depict ASL (American Sign Language) hand shapes and/or those from other sign languages?

Thanks a lot!
Leo

[lkaestne]

I just solved the G-issue:
using the amsmath package I can simply put

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$\dddot{\overline{\overline{G}}}$

Still, if anyone knows a set of latex symbols for hand shapes, I'd greatly appreciate a hint

Leo

[frabjous]

If you know of a truetype or opentype font with the hand shapes you could use XeLaTeX with the fontspec package. Otherwise, you might need to resort to including images of the hand shapes instead.

[lkaestne]

Thank you, frabjous -- the package works. However, since the SL fonts that I have don't look too nice, I think I'll rather go for pictures ...