Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote: > I disagree, this is not only handwriting: SÃtterlin 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 > SÃtterlin 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 SÃtterlin font too. They're readily available on the Web. But SÃtterlin 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 SÃtterlin 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/
