Re: First useable version of vertical cursive script

* BP Jonsson <bpj@...> [000430 15:54]:
> 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
Because it does look mongolian? Because it doesn't? I initially wanted
it to look mongolian/manchurian (anyone got a picture of manchurian
script? I deleted one while freeing space, not knowing at the time that
idris.com was dead), but wound up trying to balance it a bit more, so
there's about the same amount of "leftscenders" and "rightscenders".
(anyone know a better word for these?)

> > >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...
Good! Though the main inspirations for the non-cursive one was katakana
and (print) hebrew.

And while we're discussing scripts, whats the url to the (defunct?)
con-t-shirt-project again?

Btw, I've discovered reasonable symbols for <m>, <þ> and <ð>, now, but
the others...

> BTW I have changed the rules for how Finos script is written by left-handed
> and right-handed writers respectively.
Do you have a pic somewhere on the web? Can't find it in the
script-section of my bookmarks.

Hopefully, the cursive script is hands-independent, hard to check as I
am extremely right-handed... writes with a hook and hardly uses the left
for anything requiring nimbleness.


t.