04-04-2024, 08:01 AM
I have always considered the irregularities that @nablator mentions to be traits of easy, fluid, writing.
If the writing system is hard it would show up also as more defined and rigid row/page layout as one must devote more effort to get things right.
When it is an easy system, your lines and words can go anywhere because you are writing not just layouting; text just flows too easily around the figures and line/word spaces, directions seem to not pose any problem.
Of course the calligraphic skills of the writer contribute on this and at some points I doubt all of them were very skillful on writing books. I also believe that the writer(s) knew the "language" and were not simply and blindly transcoding something they did not uderstand, so the resulting text needed also to be relatively easy to read after writing, to make also corrections, and this is intriguing to me: the underlying language was known to the persons, the writing system was relatively easy and fluid to produce the VM but it was potentially also easy, when sufficiently experienced, to read the end product. How.
If the writing system is hard it would show up also as more defined and rigid row/page layout as one must devote more effort to get things right.
When it is an easy system, your lines and words can go anywhere because you are writing not just layouting; text just flows too easily around the figures and line/word spaces, directions seem to not pose any problem.
Of course the calligraphic skills of the writer contribute on this and at some points I doubt all of them were very skillful on writing books. I also believe that the writer(s) knew the "language" and were not simply and blindly transcoding something they did not uderstand, so the resulting text needed also to be relatively easy to read after writing, to make also corrections, and this is intriguing to me: the underlying language was known to the persons, the writing system was relatively easy and fluid to produce the VM but it was potentially also easy, when sufficiently experienced, to read the end product. How.