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Re: Devanagari handwriting?

From:Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 21:30
Steven Williams wrote:
> Since learning the Devanagari abugida, I've been > curious as to how it's handwritten in everyday usage. > The script is _very_ difficult to write out as it is > printed, especially on account of the top bar. Do the > users of this alphabet just grin and bear it, or do > they have some form that they use in informal > day-to-day communication?
I've seen examples online (somewhere) of Devanagari written on forms which have dotted lines (where you fill in your details). I'm not quite sure why someone was writing in Devanagari on a form written in Latin script, but rather than writing the letters on top of the dotted lines, they wrote them hanging from the dotted lines. Curious to see. s. -- To be sure, to be sure