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From: ggw@ethos.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Handwriting
Message-ID: <1080@ethos.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 01:22:58 EST
Article-I.D.: ethos.1080
Posted: Tue Jan 27 01:22:58 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Jan-87 06:35:23 EST
References: <1145@rti-sel.UUCP> <3968@utcsri.UUCP> <195@pembina.alberta.UUCP>
Reply-To: ggw@ethos.UUCP (Gregory Woodbury)
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Organization: Humanities Forum at ethos, Durham, NC
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Summary: printing is more readable

In article <195@pembina.alberta.UUCP> cdshaw@pembina.UUCP (Chris Shaw) writes:
>In article <3968@utcsri.UUCP> greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith) writes:
	[Discussion about handwriting styles]
>   I had had enough about people hassling me for unreadable 
>handwriting, so I started writing (by no means exclusively) in the block 
>capitals I learned from drafting class. My handwriting today (10 years 
>later) is a highly stylized form of these same "stick-letters".
>
	I, too, went through the hassles of having teachers and other folk
screaming about illegible handwriting, usually because I wrote too small.
My solution was to develop a semi-italic hand that also uses some stylistic
variations to reduce pen motion.  Nowadays, people reading my writing, which
I can do quite rapidly and legibly, comment on the clearness and beauty of it.

If I feel like it, I can still do a cursive script, but its definitly not
a Spencerian hand.

	In reference to the INPUT DEVICE discussion,  I don't really touch-
type, but still manage to average "60 wpm" by using a burst mode of typing.
This gets to be a slight problem when dealing with a variety of different
keyboards and machines as I tend to get ahead of some which have a small
rollover buffer.

One novel input device to be considered might be based on an electro-myographic
technique that tracks muscle group movements in some part of the upper or
forearm.  Such a device could be of great benefit for people who have lost
the use of fingers or hands, but still have the muscles in place that used
to flex and/or extend them.
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Gregory G. Woodbury				The usual disclaimers apply
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