The general principle is to capture a single ASL word per segment, from left to right, registering non-manual feature(s), location(s), handshape(s), movement(s) and general orientation.
It imagines the writer/speaker is looking down at their hands or viewing words from the profile such that words can be made either as if seen from straight-on or from one's profile.

The digibet captures handshape information as well as orientation, movement and some locations.
Locatives are characters that capture location, though handshape diacritics like edge do capture some locations such as edge of palm.
Diacritics, such as movements, modify handshapes and can indicate small movements or small orientations.
Movements themselves are fairly flexible in their shapes and orientations, which makes digitising this script difficult.

From left to right, up to down, this is the order in which to write characters:
1) Non-manual marks – Often, this is seen as raised or lowered eyebrows, but it can include body or mouth marks such as shoulder-shift and teeth-clench.

2) Frontal or profile locatives – Captures the same location information, just from two perspectives.
An example (seen on the right) is the shoulder locative is either a shoulder frontal locative that is written above or below the handshape(s).

3) Handshapes – Can be written before or after the locative.
A handshape can be oriented in 360º depending its location and is written at the end of its movement path if there is one.
Each handshape present is written, and when more than one handshape (of one hand) is written, a movement must be present.

3a) Diacritics / movements – Written as a part of the handshape, though larger movements or movements that affect multiple handshapes is written after (see below).

4) Movements – Larger movements or movements that affect multiple handshapes.
When a handshape changes without overt movement, the handshapes are written left-to-right with a single movement below similar to an underline.

5) Non-manual & punctuation marks – These are questioning marks such as why, who, how and how.
The stop mark is denoted by a "o" mark.
The general principle is to capture a single ASL word per segment, from left to right, registering non-manual feature(s), location(s), handshape(s), movement(s) and general orientation. It imagines the writer/speaker is looking down at their hands or viewing words from the profile such that words can be made either as if seen from straight-on or from one's profile.
The digibet captures handshape information as well as orientation, movement and some locations. Locatives are characters that capture location, though handshape diacritics like edge do capture some locations such as edge of palm. Diacritics, such as movements, modify handshapes and can indicate small movements or small orientations. Movements themselves are fairly flexible in their shapes and orientations, which makes digitising this script difficult.
From left to right, up to down, this is the order in which to write characters:
1) Non-manual marks – Often, this is seen as raised or lowered eyebrows, but it can include body or mouth marks such as shoulder-shift and teeth-clench.
2) Frontal or profile locatives – Captures the same location information, just from two perspectives. An example (seen on the right) is the shoulder locative is either a shoulder frontal locative that is written above or below the handshape(s).
3) Handshapes – Can be written before or after the locative. A handshape can be oriented in 360º depending its location and is written at the end of its movement path if there is one. Each handshape present is written, and when more than one handshape (of one hand) is written, a movement must be present.
3a) Diacritics / movements – Written as a part of the handshape, though larger movements or movements that affect multiple handshapes is written after (see below).
4) Movements – Larger movements or movements that affect multiple handshapes. When a handshape changes without overt movement, the handshapes are written left-to-right with a single movement below similar to an underline.
5) Non-manual & punctuation marks – These are questioning marks such as why, who, how and how. The stop mark is denoted by a "o" mark.
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