A Metafont for rustic capitals
2023; The TeX Users Group; Volume: 44; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.47397/tb/44-2/tb137sannier-rustic
ISSN0896-3207
Autores ResumoThe Square Capital writing was obviously so tedious a method for preserving literature that we may be pretty certain that it was seldom used, and that the scribes hastened to escape to quicker methods.This seems to be proved by the paucity of extant examples in that character, as compared with those in rustic letters (capitalis rustica).Rustic Capitals, on the other hand, are, as the name implies, of a more negligent pattern, although, as a style of writing for select books, they were no less carefully formed than the Square Capitals.But the strokes are more slender, cross-strokes are short and are more or less oblique and waved.Their extremities are no longer flattened by the small graceful bar (serif) which adorns the Square Capitals.Rustic Capitals are similar to Square Capitals, but its letters are less rigid, stand more closely together, are esentially taller than wide, and are easier to write with a pen than the Square Capitals.Being thus, in appearance, less finished as perfect letters, although accurately shaped, they have received the somewhat misleading title which distinguishes them (capitalis rustica).Rustic manuscripts have few contractions and no punctuation marks.Originally words were not separated (i.e.uninterrupted script), although a medial dot can be found in some
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