Re: CHAT: Handwriting (was: Re: CHAT: Coming out of the conlang closet)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 4, 2002, 7:29 |
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En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:
(I seem to have the syndrome of only writing in block
> letters -- I've tried to learn cursive a few times in my youth but
> never
> really picked it up. Today I write in sorta half-cursive,
> mostly-block,
> with a ton of bizarre shorthands that people say look like accents.)
>
I have the opposite syndrome: I cannot write correctly in block letters. Even
in forms which have little squares for each letter, I tend to write cursively.
As a result, my capital block letters are difficult to recognise (especially D
from O). On the other hand, my cursive handwriting is not aesthetic but easily
readable (but slow. I remember that during classes I was always two or three
sentences behind from the teacher when writing notes, although I was
abbreviating a lot what they said. I've never understood how some people
managed to write everything down at the speed the teacher was talking, while my
hand was aching of trying to write too fast after half an hour!).
No problem!
> but
> it may not be worthwhile since this document is still under
> construction
> and is changing very rapidly.)
>
You're too modest here. I've not read it all, but the document, even
unfinished, is great! It's definitely worth looking, and worth making a PDF of
it :)) . So I did it (it took me five seconds, so it's not as if you were using
my precious time ;)) ). The result is OK, not as good as I hoped, but better
than the PDF files of the Unicode site ;))) . It's a bit big though (3Mb
compared to the 300Kb of the Postscript file. I suppose it's the Roman
transliteration of the Ebisedi texts which doesn't please PDF, because normally
it doens't make such big files :)) ). But for 46 pages it's still
acceptable :) .
>
> I'd say I prefer to start with handwriting first, just so I can doodle
> around with different letterforms until I get something that looks
> good.
> Then I'm OK with spending the time to implement this on computer... I
> don't like spending countless hours drawing glyphs on the computer only
> to
> throw them away later because they aren't good enough.
>
I still never made a font myself. I have a program for it, but the
documentation is 500 pages long and I still didn't find the courage to look
into it :)) . The universe of fonts is still a big mystery for me...
Christophe.
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