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Re: Scripts

From:Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>
Date:Sunday, July 7, 2002, 9:50
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.
-- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."