Re: VMs: Re: How to write <ch> and <sh>...?

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi GC,

At 02:41 04/08/2004 -0600, GC wrote:
> The tear-drop plumes are written in the left-upward, right-downward stroke,
> and are physically related to the backward plume, not the standard plume.
> IF I understand your own analysis correctly, I think we agree on the basic
> structure.

For <Ch>, there seem to be four recognisable patterns, please stop me if 
I'm wrong:-
(1) start centre of horizontal bar, go leftwards to end, left stroke down, 
lift quill slightly, move back up to centre of bar, complete bar rightwards 
to end, right stroke down. Symptoms: "dip" in ink flow across top of bar, 
faint line linking bottom left with centre of bar.
(2) start right end of horizontal bar, go leftwards to end, left stroke 
down, lift quill slightly, move back across to right end of bar, right 
stroke down. Symptoms: even top bar, faint line linking bottom left with 
(roughly) centre of right downstroke.
(3) start bottom left, draw left curve as careful upstroke, draw horizontal 
bar across to far right, draw right curve as downstroke. Symptoms: even top 
bar, but occasional ink splodginess on upstroke (where quill is pushed 
upwards).

I don't remember seeing any right-stroke-first <Ch> shapes - have I missed 
any obvious ones?

As for <Sh>, well...

>   You've probably also noticed that the "rainbow" plume (a loose
> arc over the <ch>), is also drawn in both directions - in one direction it
> is rather innocuous, but in the reversed direction rather careful.  On that
> theme you may also have noticed that the "caret" (^) plume also has a very
> rare reverse, also done carefully in that event.

...all of this sounds like a cue for a web-page full of blown-up glyphs and 
lots of tiny arrows. :-)

The more I think about this, the more I want to try to write Voynichese 
with a quill (of appropriate size and cut) and ink (of plausible colour, 
consistency, and composition) on vellum (of suitable thickness and 
smoothness) - real SCA stuff. Well, *someone's* got to do it, right? :-)

However, ATM I couldn't really claim to understand the physical aspects of 
the text production even 10% as well as GC, so I've got a way to go just 
yet in my preparation... :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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