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	Majuscule
		Majuscules or capital letters (in the roman alphabet: "A", "B", "C"...) are one type of case in a writing system.
		Majuscules and minuscules are sometimes also known as uppercase (or upper case) and lowercase letters, respectively (for example, in computer programming).
		Note: the use of majuscules for emphasis in situations where bold[?] or italic type[?] would suffice is generally considered to be a bad habit[?], albeit one that is quite common in the United States.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Majuscule_letter.html (176 words)

	A Glossary of Paleographical & Codicological Terms
		The pointed tip of a letter, as in A. Arch: The portion of a lowercase letter formed by a curved stroke spring from the stem, as in h and n.
		Minim height: The height of a miniscule letter, excluding the ascender and descender.
		Nib width: The width of the stroke of a letter, determined by the fineness of the point or nib of the pen or quill.
	www.library.ehc.edu /staff/labraham/glossary.html (1131 words)

	Capital letters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Capital letters (also simply called capitals or caps) are also known as upper case; manual typesetters kept them in the upper drawers of a desk, keeping the more frequently used minuscule letters on the lower shelf.
		When an acronym or initialism requires a string of uppercase letters, it is frequently set in small capitals, to avoid overemphasizing the word in mostly lowercase running text.
		Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in upper-case and the remaining letters in lower-case.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Majuscule (447 words)

	Palæography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The majuscule cursive, which is that of the ancient papyri, is distinguished from the minuscule cursive, used on the papyri of the sixth and seventh centuries.
		The most ancient Manuscripts have disconnected letters and abbreviations; they incline to rounded or almost square forms; the letters are nearly always of an equal height; the strokes are slightly marked; as a general thing, the simplest forms are the most ancient.
		The letters E, V, H retain the uncial form; the D has sometimes the uncial form, sometimes the minuscule; the N is in capital.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/palaeography.html (6852 words)

	Majuscule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Majuscules and minuscules are sometimes also known as uppercase (or upper case) and lowercase (or lower case) letters, respectively.
		Majuscules sometimes are used for typographical emphasis in Internet text in place of bolding or italicizing.
		Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in majuscule and the remaining letters in minuscule.
	majuscule.kiwiki.homeip.net (435 words)

	The History of a
		The letter a is one of the more interesting ones, with a range of variations in form, some of which are regarded as diagnostic in the identification of particular scripts.
		The uncial A, while a majuscule letter, shows a form similar to that of many later minuscule scripts, with the curved diagonal line forming an upper loop and a closed loop attached.
		The letter a could be changed in form in a ligature, most notably in the æ dipthong found in Old English.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /scripts/letters/historya.htm (1243 words)

	Hague MS Description
		Strangely enough, the alphabetical sequence of the letter symbols in consecutive quires does not proceed from the beginning of the alphabet, as one would expect from their function of facilitating the arrangement of the quires.
		The first letters of the verse lines, or 'capital letters', are guided by the left bounding line, and the second letters by the second bounding line of the column.
		Letter Shapes For Hands A and B gives an overview of the different letterforms, as used by Hand A and Hand B. Table 4 gives a quantitative overview of the differences in the use of majuscule and minuscule letterforms.
	www.hull.ac.uk /denhaagKB/manudesc.htm (8124 words)

	T Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
		The letter T is the twentieth letter in the Latin alphabet, preceded by s and followed by u.
		Roman capital letters are proportional to a circle and a rectangle.
		In English, the letter t represents a voiceless alveolar stop, produced by the release of breath blocked by the tongue being placed against the roof of the mouth behind the front teeth.
	www.prescriptiondrug-info.com /drug_information_online.asp?title=T (8025 words)

	Ingmire - Scriptorium St Francis
		Versal is a term coined in the 20th century that refers to a broad variety of both historic and contemporary majuscule letter forms.
		In early manuscripts these letters were often large, decorated in various colors, and used to designate the beginnings of verses- thus the origin of the name.
		This traditional versals program focuses on the study of the classical versal letters that were characteristic of the 11th and 12th century Caroline manuscripts.
	www.thomasingmire.com /saintfrancis/st_francis1.html (155 words)

	Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The minuscule letter a — In standard "latin" type, the lowercase letter a has a hook on the top (and is called the "hook a"), unlike the form taught in elementary schools, which is also used in "italic" type.
		The majuscule letter J — In Germany, this letter is often written with a long stroke to the left at the top.
		The majuscule letter S — In Japan, this letter is often written with a single serif added to the end of the stroke.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regional_handwriting_variation (1439 words)

	X Alphabet X
		The Christian cross as a symbol of resurrection is a direct descendant of the crossed crook and flail of Assur as a symbol of resurrection.
		With many letters of the alphabet, the sound of the letter is derived from the function of the minuscule letter, the earth symbol.
		Letter X also represents the "genetic crossing" of the agrarian and pastoral nations who were descendants of Assur.
	www.resurrectisis.org /X1WebPage.htm (1098 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Latin
		The letters Y and Z were added for to write Greeks loan words during the early Imperial period (1st century BCE).
		The letter I was used for both [i] and [y], and so J was created from to represent the [y] semi-vowel.
		Still later, the letter W was created in Germanic-speaking regions from doubling U to represent the [v] sound (while the letter V shifted to represent [f]).
	www.ancientscripts.com /latin.html (650 words)

	Spacing capitals
		Your first step in spacing capitals is to decide the width of the letters H and O. I suggest you print out a test in several widths.
		The left sidebearing of the letter J should be as small as possible.
		Compare the gap between the letters G and H to the gap between the letters H and I. Look at the spaces on either side of the letter Q. Perfect they aren’t, but they will do for now.
	briem.ismennt.is /2/2.3.5a/2.3.5.03.capitals.htm (256 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Muslim letter 'misjudged' - Reid
		The letter pointed to the "debacle" of Iraq and the UK's stance over the Middle East crisis as examples of policies which fuelled extremism.
		The letter urges the prime minister to redouble his efforts to tackle terror and extremism, and change foreign policy to show that the UK values the lives of civilians.
		The home secretary said he would not question the motives of those who signed the letter, but said it was a "dreadful misjudgement if they believe that the foreign policy of this country should be shaped in part or in whole under the threat of terrorist activity".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4788133.stm (549 words)

	Type Directors Club : Views : Type Dictionary : C
		Type is placed upside-down with the head of the letters at the long wall of the stick and succesive rows of type are added until the stick is nearly filled, at whicc time the type is transferred to a composing stone.
		The interior part of a letter that is not a stroke; the negative space of the letter.
		A slight flexion on a serif that raises or lowers the center of the serif away from the horizontal and towards the center of the letter, inducing a subtle horizontal curvature to the end of a letter stroke.
	www.tdc.org /views/typedictionaryC.html (771 words)

	Majuscule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In alphabets with a case distinction, majuscules are used for: capitalization, acronyms, better legibility, for example on signs and in labeling, and emphasis in Some languages.
		In printed material where acronyms require a string of uppercase letters, they are frequently reduced in size by a point or more to make them easier to read.
		In electronic communications, it is often considered in very poor "netiquette" to type this way because it can be harder to read and because typing in all majuscules can be seen as tantamount to shouting.
	majuscule.iqnaut.net (369 words)

	Letter Summary
		A letter is a written message from one person to another.
		Letters are usually intended to be received by someone far away.
		Discusses the decline of letter writing "by hand." Provides reasons for the lost art of letter writing.
	www.bookrags.com /Letter (227 words)

	majuscule - Deaf Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I can always recognize my brother's handwriting at a quick glance based on how elaborately the majuscules are formed and how they dwarf the other letters.
		"Majuscule" is the counterpart to "minuscule" when it comes to letters, but it never developed a broader sense (despite the fact that its Latin ancestor "majusculus" has the broad meaning "rather large").
		Not surprisingly, the adjective shares the noun's specificity, referring only to large letters or to a style using such letters.
	www.deafonline2.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=19632 (265 words)

	Munchfonts : SPQR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The beginning of Roman writing was the Majuscule letter, and every designer needs to try the magnificent Roman Majuscules.
		Not just the regular capitals that work with text lowercase, but the original inscriptional letters that were carved in stone in the days of the Republic and Empire.
		The graceful proportions of the Majuscules let each letter have its own width; generally, single-story letters want to fit nearly to a square, two-story letters want to fit in half that square.
	gmunch.home.pipeline.com /SPQR/index.html (158 words)

	Glossary - General (U-Z)
		a letter form, as A, B, C, that is usually larger than and different from a lowercase letter; majuscule.
		the letters r, l, and, in some phonic systems, w, when the sounds they represent modify an immediately preceding vowel sound in the same syllable, as in fir, fall, saw.
		an analytic approach to reading instruction in which the sounds represented by certain letters and groups of letters within whole words are compared and contrasted to those in other whole words, avoiding the separate sounding of word parts.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /READ/FRAMEWORK/glossary/general_u-z.html (1423 words)

	Anne Boleyn's Handwriting in 1514
		She did not have the advantage of lined notebook paper, yet her handwriting is small and consistent, and her lines are remarkably evenly spaced.
		My conclusion based on this comparison is that Anne Boleyn was an adolescent at the time she wrote that letter in 1514, and therefore was born between 1499 and 1502.
		Anne Boleyn's handwriting example was scanned from "The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn" by Retha Warnicke.
	www.nellgavin.com /boleyn_links/boleynhandwriting.htm (356 words)

	Thomas Ingmire - Teaching 1
		The 'versal' letters of 20th century calligraphy are characterized by their informality.
		His letters were quite unique and his manuscripts were also particular because of his technique of alternating various colors with gold in the production of modern looking letter patterns.
		This workshop focuses on the study of the classical versal letters that were characteristic of the 11th and 12th century Caroline manuscripts.The study presents a step-by-step method of learning to make the letters that also includes a basic review of classical Roman letter form, proportion and spacing.
	www.thomasingmire.com /teaching/teaching1.html (612 words)

	Half Uncial
		Certain letters tend to a majuscule form, particularly n but also f and x.
		There are some examples of ligatures involving the letters u, e and i.
		There is some variation in the forms of letters in half uncial from different areas.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /scripts/examples/halfuncial.htm (356 words)

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		Letters made entirely with strokes of a single nib width; also known as skeleton letters.
		In calligraphy, the relationship of the nib width to the height of the letter.
		The body height of a letter; the main part of the letter excluding the ascender and/or descender.
	www.stampington.com /html/glossary_of_terms.html (4908 words)

	What is the correct term for "lower case" letters? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even before punctuation the scribes decided that the first letter of the first word of a thought and important words like nouns needed to be set off somehow.
		Early on, words were written with a large Unical capital and the rest of the letters the same size or slightly smaller in Roman.
		The Greek letter iota, which looks like an "i" became the Roman I. The iota is the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet, the name had been for ages, a synonym for anything way small.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view/41713 (1009 words)

	Alphabet B
		The letters of the alphabet are a set of religious symbols derived from Egyptian religion.
		The large (majuscule) letter "G" represents the head of Assur, the "O" is his eye, the "J" is his beard, The "L" is his leg, and so forth.
		Some of the letters are religious icons derived from the surrounding body of legend and art and are not always pictured in the Judgment Scene.
	www.resurrectisis.org /B1WebPage.htm (925 words)

	CANTUS: About the Manuscripts1
		Differentiae are designated by a letter that indicates the pitch on which the differentia ends; where necessary, additional numbers are used to distinguish differentiae of the same mode that end on the same pitch.
		The series of upper-case letters ends on the G above the F-clef, and thus the series of lower-case letters begins on the following a, through the c-clef theoretically to g (g and f are not actually used as reciting tones).
		In antiphons the first letter represents the actual final and the second, the reciting tone; in responsories with unconventional finals, the first letter represents the theoretical final and the second, the actual final.
	publish.uwo.ca /~cantus/aboutms1.html (10794 words)

	Synonyms of majuscule — Infoplease.com
		capital, capital letter, upper case, upper-case letter, majuscule, character, grapheme, graphic symbol
		usage: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
		usage: of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
	www.infoplease.com /thesaurus/majuscule (114 words)

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