Cursive script

“ The poem text uses the browser’s script or cursive font. This can be changed if it does not match the large initial capital letter well. A popular and freely available script font (as of 2015) is ‘URW Chancery L’.
On page 26, two instances of ‘Jacgueminot’ have been replaced with ‘Jacqueminot’. ”

“ The one, cursive and flourished, is common in charters, records, and memoranda; see C. H. Jenkinson and C. Johnson, Court Hand, 2 vols., Oxford 1915. The other, in which the letters are separately written, with few flourishes or adaptations of form in combination, is the 'book hand', so called because it is regularly used for literary texts. Between the extreme types there are many gradations; and fifteenth-century copies, such as the Cambridge MS. of Barbour's Bruce, show an increasing use of cursive forms, which facilitate rapid writing. ”

“ Manifestly the Gothic does not lend itself to a cursive form so that the two types which appear are the set or upright, similar in its characteristics to the corresponding book hand, and the ornamental or calligraphic which, as its name implies, was an ornamental type of the set hand. The third type was the letter hand, used by [Pg 43] persons who were not professional penmen in correspondence and the ordinary uses to which handwriting is applied. The fourth was the court or charter hand. This hand was used for court records, deeds, charters, and all sorts of legal documents. ”

“ The process of “forming” a hand requires time and practice: it resembles the passage of “Copy-book” into “Running” hand, familiar to us all (see p. 323) .
Fig. 58. SCRIPTS I. & II.
Having cut the nib of a reed or large quill to the exact width required for the thick stroke, copy the component strokes of the letter (Script I.) , and [p087] immediately make the complete letter: go through the whole alphabet in this way several times (fig. 58) . Next join the letters together (see p. 73) [p088] to form words—writing always between ruled lines (fig. 59 & p. 414) .
Fig. 59.
Fig. 60. ”

“ Neither series, however, it is to be remembered, has a style of writing peculiar to itself. While the extant literary works are, as a rule, written with more or less formality, no doubt by professional scribes for the book market, not a few of even the more valuable of them are copies in the ordinary cursive hands of the day. Conversely, while we find non-literary documents generally written in ordinary cursive hands, whether by official scribes or by private individuals, yet occasionally we meet with one produced in the formal style more proper to literary examples. ”

“ Unprintables and invisibles are never really a concern to me, it is only the visible cruft that I dislike. It is unusual for invisible cruft to confuse that often. Apart from that, if you do know the characters that are regularly appearing in your works, we can readily & easily do a [search and remove] script that can be added via Pathoschild's regex gadget to your left toolbar by editing your monobook.js. Something like a line rm cruft that you would click once per page and voila, cruft removal. You would need to identify the cruft symbols to be removed so we could search for them. ”

“ Line-finishings are used to preserve the evenness of the text when lines of writing fall short. When the space left is small, or occurs in the middle of a sentence, a quick stroke of the pen—often a continuation of the last letter, or springing from it—is sufficient (fig. 125) ; but where there are many and long gaps (as, for example, in a psalter at the ends of the verses) , they may be filled in with dots (see Plate VIII.) or flourishes (a, b, c, fig. 126) either made in black with the script pen, or with another pen, in colour or gold. ”

“ Legibility, neatness, and clearness are the salient virtues of a letter.
The use of the typewriter is confined to business. It is still very bad form to use it for personal letters; but should elegant script and small, clear forms of type, such as are furnished by one or two of the machines now on the market, be in common use, there is little doubt but what the speed of service and the advantages of clearness would bring the typewriter into use in intimate, and perhaps at last into more formal, social correspondence. ”

“ It must be remembered that all the time these majuscules, both capitals and uncials, represent only one side of the handwriting employed, viz., that used for the production of books. The ordinary handwriting of the people, known as “cursive” writing, was in extensive use at the same time. Very often this form of writing got mixed up with the other, and the result was a mixed style. ”

“ It is in this phase of the work that accuracy and care in the formation of [Pg 5] letters may be taught, not only in script or handwriting, but also in printing, both of which are now fast becoming lost arts. Cipher writing, if properly taught, will give practice in penmanship that will be interesting and not onerous to children. ”

“ A manuscript should never be rolled—it irritates a [Pg 411] busy editor to have to straighten out a persistently curling package of manuscript.
The sheets should not be permanently fastened together. It is simple diplomacy to make the reading of your script an agreeable task instead of an annoyance.
Do not fold an 8-1/2 x 11-inch sheet of paper more than twice. Fold it but once, or else make two even folds and the script will be in proper form to fit the legal-sized envelope. ”

“ Besides the broad and palpable distinction between uncial and cursive letters, persons who have had much experience in the study of manuscripts are able to distinguish those of either class from one another in respect of style and character ”

“ The errors which occur are not sufficient to warrant any conclusion as to the script of the archetype. One item of information, however, we do get: an omission on fol. 52v goes to show that the manuscript from which our scribe copied was written in lines of 25 letters or thereabout.24 The scribe first wrote excucuris|sem commeatu. Discovering his error of omission, he erased sem at the beginning of line 8 and added it at the end of line 7 (intruding upon margin-space in order to do so) , and then supplied, in somewhat smaller letters, the omitted words accepto ut praefectus aerari. ”

“ Works that contain bits of text in other languages, which never come out right. (d) Works that contain special diacritical marks. (e) Works that contain unusual archaic typography, such as special characters for "ct", or italicized script that the OCR can't handle. If you're working on a text that consists primarily of standard sentences and paragraphs, without italics or any special characters, and without archaic spellings or archaic typography, that is entirely in English, then Google's OCR might be useful. ”

“ The printer’s type (see Typography) would as a rule be based on a handwriting considered by the scribes appropriate to works of the same class; the chapter headings, headlines, initial-letters, paragraph marks, and in some cases illustrations, would be added by hand in a style which might closely resemble the like decorations in the manuscript from which the text was being printed; there would be no title-page, and very probably no statement of any kind that the book was printed, or as to where, when or by whom it was produced. ”

“ The end of a line should be indicated by an upright stroke. [1] It is a considerable gain to indicate to the eye in what types the words transcribed are printed, i.e. whether in roman, gothic letter, or italic, and in each case whether in majuscules or minuscules (“upper or lower case”) . To do this, however, adds greatly not only to the cost of printing, but also to the liability of error. If roman minuscules are used throughout, or roman for the text and italic for the imprint of colophon, the method of transliteration which the printer himself would have used should be adopted. ”

“ These letters are formed with quite simple strokes of the pen. In this MS. the f-shaped minuscule s is used. In the alphabet given here this has been substituted by one more in keeping with the modern type of letter, and several letters have been added to make the81 alphabet complete. The student is strongly advised to study the lettering in this MS. for himself. It makes a very effective script if written fairly small with a crisply-cut pen. ”

“ If the style require a comma before leaders, see that none have been left out; if the style reject a comma, see that none have been left in; in short, see to everything,—and then, on the corner of the sheet, write the word “Press” as boldly as you can, but with the moral certainty that some skulking blunder of author, compositor, or corrector has eluded all your watchfulness.
5 In the Government Printing Office the style omits the “$” in this case,—the sign at top of table or page being considered sufficient.
The errors made by ourselves are those which occasion us the most pain. ”

“ All apparent printer errors have also been preserved, and are hyperlinked to a list at the end of this document.
The following alterations have been made:
1. Long-s (s) has been regularized as s.
2. The paragraph symbol, resembling a C in the original, is rendered as ¶.
3. Missing hyphens have been added in brackets, e.g. [-] .
4. Abbreviations and contractions represented as special characters in the original have been expanded as noted in the table below. A macron means a horizontal line over a letter. A cursive semicolon is an old-style semicolon somewhat resembling a handwritten z. ”

“ After having made the measure for the work, we set a line for the letter that is designed for it, and take notice how much copy will come into the line in the stick, whether less or more than a line of manuscript. And as it is seldom that neither one nor the other happens, we make a mark in the copy where the line in the stick ends, and number the words that it contains. ”

“ If I am doing my own work (or a work that doesn't seem to have some special formatting preferences) then I will, using a script: Use straight quotes (and change curly quotes in OCR to straight) . Most (non-WS-regular) people are barely aware they are a distinct glyphs (some may never even notice the difference due to font issues) , and wouldn't know where to find them. The reason I used them in TIJ was not a personal preference, but rather because Doug, as the primary contributor, wished to keep them. ”

“ In machines of the Linotype class, which have come into extensive use, especially for newspaper printing, it is impossible to make corrections or alterations in the line of type after it has been cast. The smallest change, such as the addition of a comma, involves the resetting and recasting of a whole line, while, if two or three words have to be added or removed, the compositor may have to recast a considerable number of lines perhaps a whole paragraph. ”

“ So many diversified forms have been given and are at present in use for Script Capitals, and also, but in a much less degree, for small letters that it may be advisable to give a series of outlines, which shall contain as far as possible all the essentials of a clear bold and elegant simplicity, and shall at the same time, by the facility with which they are made, secure the highest possible rate of speed. ”

“ It is strange, but not more strange than needful, that we are compelled in the cause of truth to make one stipulation more: namely, that this rule be henceforth applied impartially in all cases, as well when it will tell in favour of the Received text, as when it shall help to set it aside. To assign a high value to cursive manuscripts of the best description (such as 1, 33, 69, 157, Evst. 259, or 61 of the Acts) , and to such uncials as LRΔ, or even as א or C, whensoever they happen to agree with Cod. ”

“ It offers the readiest means for securing a page of correct reading matter. The mechanical operations are relatively simple. No other process will produce so good a printing surface as quickly or as inexpensively as the typographic method. Serious faults of the original copy, in spelling, use of points, words, phrases, in paragraphing, in spacing of lines, in arrangement of headings, and other errors can be readily corrected in type. The page can be made longer by leading, or shorter by taking out leads. ”

“ The modern pen draughtsman should bear in mind, however, that, perfect as such forms of letters may be for the uses of the printer, the limitations of type have necessarily curtailed the freedom and variety of their serif and swash lines, and that therefore, though accepting their basic forms, he need not be cramped by their restrictions, nor imitate the unalterable and sometimes awkwardly inartistic relations of letter to letter for which he finds precedents in the printed page. ”

“ The student will do well however to stick to the plain alphabet until the various letters are thoroughly mastered.
Among printers, this alphabet is known as “Gothic,” and some showcard men call it a “block” letter. The term “block” comes from the fact that most of the letters should occupy the same amount of spacing.
While not a beautiful alphabet—it comes in very conveniently, and is a splendid letter for making bold lines. As an illustration—the word “HATS” is a comparatively weak word on a large show card, unless the lettering is heavy, or embellished with some shading or outlining. ”

“ One single letter gave it to me.”
“How was that?”
“If you will look at the telegram,” said Ben, spreading it out before me, “you will notice that in one instance only is a single letter seen standing by itself. That is the letter ‘b,’ which I concluded must stand for the article ‘a,’ for I know of no other, unless it is ‘I.’ Now, the letter ‘b’ is the second one in the alphabet, and stands next in order to ‘a.’ If this system is followed throughout the cipher, we have only to take, instead of the letters as written, the next in order as they occur in the alphabet. ”