Write (joined up writing) me a letter.

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Although I can write backwards too (though demonstrating that on the Internet is somewhat useless since anyone can invert a photo along the horizontal axis), but yes this is left-to-right. An earlier form was right-to-left, and for a while I had one that went left-to-right-to-left-to-right like a snake coming down the page. Why lift the pen and recycle when you can just keep writing where you are? :slight_smile:

The only things I can see that remotely look like h’s in that area are actually double-phoneme constructs; completely different, so yes that would be true. It’s difficult to use getpos() because what might look like one character to you might actually be two or three. There is a lot of compression and alternate formation (like inversion) going on, much like cursive, only more so, to increase writing speed.

That is a truly terrifying doodle in the lower right, Keith.

Ahh, Robert,
As always, on the right track. :wink:

Kevin,
It comes as no surprise, that you are encouraging tribute from the crew, as in: A payment, tax or bribe, given by a feudal vassal to a would be overlord.[size=50]contemptuous snigger[/size]

A discerning doodler, however. Nuf said

vic
P.S. Robert! Careful you don’t blow the ship up with that! :open_mouth:
Ioa
You should be ashamed of youself :blush:

AmberV wrote

“An earlier form was right-to-left, and for a while I had one that went left-to-right-to-left-to-right like a snake coming down the page.”

The Ancient Greeks called this “boustrophedon”… writing like the ox-furrow… this article explains why:

 [johntranter.com/prose/gardtype.shtml](http://johntranter.com/prose/gardtype.shtml)

best

John Tranter

Mr Tranter,
This thread is about handwriting, not the encouraging of deviant practices amongst Scriv’s already deviant crew. :open_mouth: So, If you please, lets have a butchers at your scribble/scrawl.
Vic

I would like a better shot of that headless three-legged dog. It’s going to come in real handy. I wonder if you could put a bug pin through the head, though. That would be just perfect.

[EDIT: I meant ‘big pin’, not ‘bug pin’.]

–gr

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See what I mean Mr Tranter:

Deviancy Rampant!

I was once told by a bank teller that my signature was “too messy.”

:blush:

Nice palimpsest, gr. :slight_smile:

Looks more like a palimpmess to me

Why doesn’t that come as a surprise? :confused:

Just after I got married, I was in the bank, withdrawing cash, from our joint account. When the bank teller saw my name she excused herself and knocked on the Manager’s door.

Summoned to the inner sanctum, the manager spread out a hand full of checks, on his desk, for me to examine. Each check had been signed by my wife.
“Tell me,” he said ,“Just how many signatures does you wife possess?” You would’ve been forgiven for believing three different people had signed the checks. Three different signatures, with absolutely nothing in common.
“Ask her to call in and have a quiet word with me, will you?” he said sarkily.

Note the quivering frustration caused by needing to install an anti-virus program on the (shudder!) Windows machine!

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