26-12-2018, 07:44 PM
(25-12-2018, 10:12 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's difficult to make this kind of judgment about text that is in some way invented or ciphered.
If you look at alphabets that have been invented (in contrast to those that evolve slowly), you frequently find that they are more disconnected and widely spaced than evolved scripts. I noticed this when investigating cipher alphabets, and also the many alphabets that have been invented by missionaries working in areas where there was no written text
The various shapes in the VMS that are based on Latin abbreviation shapes lean more toward Gothic than Humanist styles, but the spacing is more similar to Humanist (but... this might be a coincidence, for the reasons given above).
Thanks for your valuable explanations! I completely agree with you. I mean, the various shapes tend to be more Gothic (ducti, angles in graphs, the thick strokes and so on). The similarity with a humanist script can be easily explained since palaeographers do know and identify the differences between an official decretal, let's say, and a private paper for the author's personal use. In fact, we do not write the same way for our receiver/recipient as for ourselves. Our private handwriting conveys much more valuable information than our "public" hand.
