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Re: OT More pens

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 11:45
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> You should look at my webpage, especially at the page "Ecriture et > Phonologie" of my Azak. I scanned tables of the characters of the Azak > script with their names in Roman script using my handwriting. It hasn't > much evolved since I made this page. Please tell me if my handwriting > looks > "European" to you or not, so that I get an idea of what you mean :)) .
Fortunately, this very topic is simultaneously being discussed on qalam, the writing-system mailing list (a Yahoo! Groups list, BTW, and recommended to people interested in natscripts). Here's a picture of what I, at least, was taught in an American school. John Hudson, a very knowledgeable type designer to be found on qalam as well as the Unicode mailing list, characterizes it as an 18th-century round hand, designed for fountain-pen writing, and rather foolish in the world of ballpoint pens. http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/10846.gif Here's another image of it: http://www.schoolfonts.com/printouts/ZCursiveHandwriting.gif Here is the closely related D'Nealian style: http://www.abcteach.com/DNealian/cursivechart1.htm Here's the discussion from which these links come: http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/10808.html Finally, here is an Icelandic page (written in English) explaining in thorough detail how to write italic hand, which Hudson also learned as a child in Wales, and which he at least believes to be far better suited to ballpoint pen, pencil, and similar fixed-line-width devices. http://briem.ismennt.is/4/4.1.1a/4.1.1.1.quick.htm -- Dream projects long deferred John Cowan <jcowan@...> usually bite the wax tadpole. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --James Lileks http://www.reutershealth.com