--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, tomhchappell <tomhchappell@Y...>
wrote:
> [snip]
> -----
>
> [NUMBER OF CELLS PER GLYPH, RISERS, AND DESCENDERS]
>
> To learn cursive in American schools, students are given "imaginary-
> line" paper.
>
> On this paper, the "non-imaginary" lines are bold. The space
between
> the "non-imaginary" lines is cut in half by a paler solid line;
each
> half is again halved by a yet paler dotted line.
>
> Well-written risers never rise above the bold line above the "base"
> line "on" which the student is writing; well-written descenders
never
> go below the pale solid half-way line below the base line.
>
Most strokes start, and most end, either on one of the lines --
"imaginary" or not -- or someplace between two of them (it doesn't
matter much where, as long as it is clearly between the correct two.)
This could all be simulated by having each glyph be 12 cells high --
eight cells above the base-line, and four below it.
-----
Tom H.C. in MI