Re: Scripts

On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 14:04, Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> Also, a while ago i worked in an immigration lawyer's office.  I saw that
> when forms are filled out in those line-along-the-top alphabets, they use
> "fill in the blank" lines as in "Name: ____________" as a guideline for
> writing the line-along-the-top, and not as a baseline the way users of
> Latin alphabets would.  If i remember correctly, the Hebrew scribed on
> Torah scrolls is also written suspended from the guidelines.
>
That's how I learnt my Hebrew script.  It looks bad written as a baseline
script.

>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "Of the many ways human beings have contrived to fend off ecological
> disaster, Iceland's attempt to preserve its meager topsoil by consuming
> its lambs before they consume Iceland is surely the tastiest...."
> ~this weekend's The New York Times Magazine, Food section.
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