Re: Using Bamboo for Practice

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:11:57 +0100 Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
writes:
>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?
Well, the more "modern" forms of Rokbeigalmki are written with common pen
and pen-like objects...so that's pretty easy to do, i've done it a lot
(especially during class :) ).
It's Ancient Rokbeigalmki (and it's alphabet, Rokbeigalmki-Ziifer) which
is a bit harder.  I've never actually written in it.
But, the way it was written is like cuneiform, with the edges of the
writing utensils being pressed into clay to make indentations.  There
were a few different writing instruments, each of which made a different
mark:

a small circle
a larger circle
a straight line
a curve
a point

Using each of these in different combinations it's possible to make all
of the letters and punctuation marks in the alphabet.

-Stephen (Steg)

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