Re: Complex script editor wish list

From: "Isidora Zamora" <isidora@...>
Subject: Re: Complex script editor wish list


> Are you left handed?  (I am.)  The way that left-handed caligraphers using
> Roman characters have typically gotten around the problem is to turn the
> page on its side so that they write top to bottom and in columns (rows)
> that go from right to left.  When it's done and the page is turned
upright,
> the characters move in the same direction as a right-handed scribe's.  But
> I do know that the pens are cut at the opposite angle for a left-handed
> scribe, and I don't know whether that has a subtle effect on the shape of
> the letters or not.
When I (a left hander) do calligraphy, I use perfectly normal right-handed
pens and write with the paper sideways, as you describe.  There is no need
for a different type of pen in this situation, just a different sense of
where the strokes go, since everything is sideways.