From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 10:34:57 CDT
Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
> I disagree, this is not only handwriting: Sütterlin exists also as a
> regular font. It's just that it uses a cursive (connected) style where
> letters are normally not separated by some blank. But I have seen
> Sütterlin printed with small blank separation between glyphs, to
> facilitate its reading. I'm quite sure you can find books or documents
> printed with such font style.
I have a Sütterlin font too. They're readily available on the Web. But
Sütterlin was specifically conceived as a cursive handwriting style, in
an age of typeset text. (Yes, I do understand that all writing was once
handwriting, and Arabic still is, in a sense. That's why Sütterlin
should be and is encoded... unified with regular Latin.)
> Handwriting is characterized by irregular glyphs for the same letters,
> whose form highly depends on the surrounding context and the movement
> of hand on paper, or on the current mood of the writer, or on the type
> of pen or plum used to draw it, or on the type of surface and ink, or
> by the intended recipient of the written text.
Which is a really, really good reason not to attempt to encode it
separately.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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