Re: Curvey Scripts

At 04:16 on 18.12.1998, Kristian Jensen wrote:

> I'm also not particularly fond of a script that connects _all_ the
> letters. The Javanese script doesn't do this. But it does connect
> _some_ letters (conjunct consonants) and subsrcipts in a vertical
> direction while the rest of the letters are written horizontally.
The one feature that I like most in Korean script is the way it joins -- or
rather groups -- the letters of each syllable within a (theoretical) box,
making each syllable a discrete visual unit in a very pleasing way.  This
way of delimiting syllables is IMO infinitely more pleasing and more
practical than the Tibetan method of *punctuating* each syllable.

P H L I  JO S O  '_\
 I   P   NS  N   , /    (Of course a monowidth font can't mimic it well...)