Re: Using Bamboo for Practice
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 7, 1998, 21:12 |
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>The medium used to write has a huge influence on the shape of
>letters in a script. So in developing a conscript, has anyone
>actually used the material the script is/was written on/with?
Tokana is written on papyrus-like reed paper with wide-nibbed
pens. The script thus looks best when written with a calligraphy
pen, which is what I used to develop it.
Matt.
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Matt Pearson
mpearson@ucla.edu
UCLA Linguistics Department
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
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