12-10-2025, 09:23 PM
It's very clearly left to right, even for a non expert to figure out, because the text is almost perfectly aligned on the left side, and very often not aligned on the right side. Partial lines almost always start totally aligned with the left side then end in the middle. It seems extremely improbable that anyone would write in that way right to left unless they were an expert in specifically trying to fool people into believing it's left to right.
However, one thing that I don't see discussed much is the order of writing WITHIN words. For example, gallows characters that extend over multiple letters of a word, often at the top of paragraphs, seem to have a quality where they always perfectly align with the letters below. This makes me think that they may write a vertical line upwards, then the rest of the word, say "ol", and then go back and finish off the gallows character, to extend over that "ol". This wouldn't exactly be right to left, but it would indicate multiple passes when writing certain words, where the first pass is incomplete, and the second one fleshes out more specific pen strokes on top.
However, one thing that I don't see discussed much is the order of writing WITHIN words. For example, gallows characters that extend over multiple letters of a word, often at the top of paragraphs, seem to have a quality where they always perfectly align with the letters below. This makes me think that they may write a vertical line upwards, then the rest of the word, say "ol", and then go back and finish off the gallows character, to extend over that "ol". This wouldn't exactly be right to left, but it would indicate multiple passes when writing certain words, where the first pass is incomplete, and the second one fleshes out more specific pen strokes on top.