At 09:40 -0400 2005-09-09, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Alfred Fairbank promoted italic writing, something very different from
>the Palmer that has prevailed in the US for more than a century. I get
>the impression that before Fairbank there was no accepted standard in
>the UK anyway.

Not a practice per se, not as strong as the Palmer was, but I agree with you.

>Is my handwriting problematic? Is it individual?
>
>(No and Yes respectively.)

Heh heh. Likewise I'm sure. Though I can still copy out pages from
the Beowulf MS in good likeness when I bother.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com