Re: First useable version of vertical cursive script

At 14:34 27.4.2000 +0300, Dan Sulani wrote:

>I think it looks great. (Might look even better
>if done with a broad felt-tip marker or calligraphic pen).
>My only problem is that my eye keeps wanting to turn it
>_horizontal_!  Just shows what I'm used to, I guess.
>Anyhow, I like it!
Me too.  I expected something very Mongolian-like and was positively
surprised!  Yet

> >
> >Background: this script is derived from "that other script", at
> > http://home.nvg.ntnu.no/~taliesin/taruven/symbols.html
> >and the standalone forms (not shown) are taken as-is from that 'un.
> >
inexorably reminds me of Tibetan in some odd manner...

BTW I have changed the rules for how Finos script is written by left-handed
and right-handed writers respectively.  Formerly the signs were
mirror-reversed according to writing-direction; now they are rotated 90
degrees, leftists writing like this (best viewed in mono-width):

O G @
P H A
Q I B
R K C
S L D
T M E
   N F
                 Where @ represents the "beginning of text" sign necessary
for correct reading (at least in non-cursive styles, where the same shape
turned in different directions means different things.)
         Rightists write horisontally from left to right.  It could
conceivably have been the other way (leftists writing right-left-horizontal
and rightists writing left-right-vertical) but this arrangement is
ordinary-WP-friendly! :-)
         Probably hands with any degree of cursiveness will look different
according to the handedness of the scribe.   I don't regard this as an
aesthetic problem, but it might be a practical problem for readers.




/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson
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