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		Glyphs in cursive fonts, as the term is used in CSS, generally have either joining strokes or other cursive characteristics beyond those of italic typefaces.
		CSS uses the term 'cursive' to apply to a font for any script, although other names such as Chancery, Brush, Swing and Script are also used in font names.
		Because there is no standard usage of names, the weight property values in CSS 2.1 are given on a numerical scale in which the value '400' (or 'normal') corresponds to the "normal" text face for that family.
	www.w3.org /TR/CSS21/fonts.html (3551 words)

	Palaeography - LoveToKnow 1911
		The survival of cursive papyrus documents in large numbers is due to the fact that they are chiefly written in Egypt, where papyrus was the common writing material and where climatic conditions ensured their preservation.
		Frequent and varied as its cursive formations are, yet the original shape is seldom quite disguised, the variations almost in all instances arising from the devices of the scribe to dispose swiftly and conveniently of the cross-bar by incorporating it with the rest of the letter.
		The cursive form of tau, in which the horizontal stroke is kept to the left of the vertical limb, without crossing it, is one of the early shapes of the letter.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Palaeography (16974 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Cursive
		Cursive is a style of handwriting in which all the letters in a word are connected, making a word one single (complicated) stroke.
		Cursive differs from the even more artistic Copperplate handwriting, which was used for captions of engravings in the eighteenth century, in that Copperplate writes the ascenders and descenders of minuscule letters with thick, solid lines, while cursive employs loops of thin lines.
		Cursive is considered distinct from the so-called "printing" or "block letter" style of handwriting, in which the letters of a word are unconnected, and from "print-writing", which is a cross between cursive and printing, with some unconnected letters and some connected.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Cursive (537 words)

	Latin alphabet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		Roman legend credited the introduction to one Evander, son of the Sibyl, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan war, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale.
		Roman cursive script, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Roman alphabet, and even emperors issuing commands.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Latin_alphabet (2260 words)

	Cursive Information
		Cursive is any style of handwriting in which all the letters in a word are connected, making a word one single (complicated) stroke.
		An example of the timeframe in which cursive came to be taught is that in the United States, it would be usually taught in second or third grade (around ages seven to nine).
		Eighteenth through mid-twentieth-century cursive styles differ from the even more artistic Copperplate handwriting, which was used for captions of engraved illustrations in the eighteenth century, in that Copperplate writes the ascenders and descenders of minuscule letters with thick, solid lines, while cursive employs loops of thin lines.
	www.bookrags.com /Longhand (837 words)

	Palæography
		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 papyri of the Byzantine period (sixth and seventh centuries) show the minuscule cursive, distinguished from the majuscule cursive by the greater ease with which the letters are joined by means of ligatures, and by more frequent abbreviations.
		The cursive minuscule may have furnished the elements for this character; it appears, however, chiefly as the continuation of the small uncial, which increases in refinement in the Manuscripts of the eighth century.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/palaeography.html (6852 words)

	Roman cursive
		Roman cursive is a form of handwriting used in ancient Rome and to some extent into the Middle Ages.
		Ancient Roman cursive, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Roman alphabet, and even emperors issuing commands.
		It was used from approximately the 3rd century to the 7th century, and uses letter forms that are more recognizable to modern eyes; "a", "b", "d", and "e" have taken a more familiar shape, and the other letters are proportionate to each other rather than varying wildly in size and placement on a line.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/ro/roman_cursive.html (492 words)

	How The Romans Wrote
		The capitalis romana, the forbear of all Roman type, evolved principally into block capitals, its characters accomodating the basic geometric shapes of circle, square and triangle with unmatched consideration for legibility.
		Day-to-day correspondence was not conducted on monuments, however, and the Romans also wrote on parchment, papyrus and wax tablets.
		The Roman scribes tended to slant these letters, particularly with the increased use of papyrus, in order to cope better with the grooved structure of their writing surface.
	moorstation.org /typoasis/tbp/topic/romworx/eng/roman.htm (809 words)

	Quilligraphy About Us: Calligraphy History- Framed Prints and Notecards with Calligraphy and Pressed Flowers
		There was now an even greater distinction between this lapidary lettering (close kin to their formal pen-written alphabet) and common writing, or cursive, an even more quickly-written form, through the introduction of the chisel as the lettering tool, with its need for precision (and time).
		Roman Uncials (Uncialis, meaning "inch", left) were fully developed by the fourth century (by intellectuals in North Africa) and were in use from the fifth to the eighth century as the main Christian book hand.
		Meanwhile, on the continent, letterforms were not only under the influence of the rougher Roman Cursive, but Irish (and other) missionaries were criss-crossing the continent with holy works penned in a rich variety of styles.
	www.quilligraphy.com /About_Us/AboutUs_Calligraphy.htm (1355 words)

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		Ancient Roman handwriting styles included Roman cursive, and the more calligraphic rustic capitals and square capitals, the latter of which forms the basis for modern capital letters and was used in stone inscriptions.
		With the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages, new scripts developed from the old Roman ones, such as uncial and later flletter.
		Cursive â” any style of handwriting in which all the letters in a word are connected.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=handwriting (709 words)

	Questions
		Roman alphabet has a number of silent letters, some of which are used to indicate an alternate pronunciations of a preceding letter.
		Written English using the Roman cursive alphabet is falling into disuse, except to provide signatures for legal documents, due to the easy availability of computer word processing.
		The Roman alphabet uses over 30 of vowel letters and vowel letter combinations made up from "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "w" and "y" and also adds the silent "e" to the end of the word to indicate many of the various vowel sounds used by English.
	www.shawalphabet.com /questions.html (864 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Palaeography
		Byzantine period (sixth and seventh centuries) show the minuscule cursive, distinguished from the majuscule cursive by the greater ease with which the letters are joined by means of ligatures, and by more frequent abbreviations.
		alphabet of the Armenians by a mixture of the Greek uncial and cursive.
		Manuscripts in that the higher and more slender characters are connected by tradition with the cursive of the imperial acts of the fifth century.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11403a.htm (6036 words)

	Code Style: CSS font-family property glossary
		Cursive font styles emulate handwritten letter forms and typically have strong contrast, as if written with a broad nib pen, and are usually inclined to the right.
		A cursive font style or variant that is usually inclined to the right and often used for emphasis or to stress specific words.
		A form of cursive font that is typically inclined to the right, giving the appearance of flowing, hand written lettering with flourishes.
	www.codestyle.org /css/font-family/Glossary.shtml (1584 words)

	Latin alphabet at AllExperts
		For a short time in Roman history, three new letters, called the Claudian letters, were added to the alphabet, but they were not widely received and were eventually removed.
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		Roman legend credited the introduction to one Evander, son of the Sibyl, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan war, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/la/latin_alphabet.htm (3737 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, Alabama (AL)
		Roman cursive (or Latin cursive) is a form of handwriting (or a script) used in ancient Rome and to some extent into the Middle Ages.
		Old Roman cursive, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Roman alphabet, and even emperors issuing commands.
		Old Roman cursive is very difficult to read for modern people used to the current cursive forms of the Latin script, which have evolved beyond recognition.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Roman_cursive (581 words)

	Roman - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Roman is a term used when a cell phone or other wireless communication device connects to a "home" network through another company's service network because the phone in question has left the normal service area.
		Roman Society generally entails late nights, airplanes, Japanese people, Starbucks coffee, and Chuck Norris.
		Due to the extra expenses incurred during Roman calls, many "Romans" have adopted a highly altered version of God's Language, Brazilian Portuguese, which is spoken in much the same way that cursive is written; in a way designed to increase the speed of language transfer (in this case, speech).
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Roman (360 words)

	Vindolanda Tablets Online \| Exhibition \| Scripts at Vindolanda
		Cursive script is distinct from the ‘bookhands’, which used capital forms for copying literary texts.
		The ‘Old Roman Cursive’ (ORC) of the Vindolanda tablets is very similar to the script of contemporary papyri from Egypt, although coming from the opposite end of the empire.
		From the later third century ORC was replaced by ‘New Roman Cursive’ (NRC), of which the letter forms are closer to modern lower-case letters.
	vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk /exhibition/paleo-1.shtml (747 words)

	Wikinfo \| Roman square capitals
		Roman square capitals, also called elegant capitals and quadrata, are an ancient Roman form of writing, and the basis for modern capital letters.
		Square capitals were most often used to write the Roman alphabet in inscriptions, and less frequently in everyday handwriting.
		(The usual handwriting script in ancient Rome was Roman cursive.) Some notable examples of square capitals used for inscriptions are the Pantheon, Trajan's Column, and the Arch of Titus, all in Rome.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Roman_square_capitals (283 words)

	Manuscript Studies: Paleography: Historical Notes
		Cursive capitals (Roman cursives): the documentary hand of the first to sixth centuries; developed into a French documentary script in seventh.
		Anglicana: a particular Gothic cursive hand, particular to England of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (the term originates with M. Parkes); originally a documentary hand, it came to be used as a bookhand.
		Humanistic Cursive: Niccolò Niccoli invented in 1420s a cursive hand which by 1501 was adapted to printing as the "italic" font, and which is the ancestor of modern handwriting.
	www.ualberta.ca /~sreimer/ms-course/course/pal-hist.htm (1216 words)

	MORE
		While more Roman fonts are planned for the future, with the latest releases we now have enough fonts to release them as a package at a special price.
		Michael's Roman fonts are based on historical sources from different eras of the Roman Empire and are extraordinarily accurate to the details of the different lettering styles which they represent.
		Roman lettering styles have a unique and ageless look which still appeals to the modern eye.
	www.fontcraft.com /csa/fontcraftmore.php?id=418_0_4_42_M (537 words)

	Merovingian Calligraphy
		Using the chancery cursive of the Roman authorities, the various tribes developed their own styles of writing, which remained until Charlemagne consolidated most of the local governments and imposed a new hand on the scribes of Europe.
		Cursive derives from the Latin word meaning 'running' or 'speed' and that is precisely what distinguishes the two: cursive writing today, just as 2,000 years ago, is written quickly with ligatures between the letters.
		Originally, the forms of the normal Roman cursive were twisted and exaggerated in order to add grandeur to the imperial word, as well as to prevent forgery.
	www.housebarra.com /EP/ep07/10calli.html (1221 words)

	BRITANNIA
		The implications of a major Roman stone building, exposed during the sample investigation of a large Iron Age and Roman settlement complex, are considered, as is its potential relationship to nearby Stonea Grange.
		Iron Age, Roman Republican and post-Conquest coins were recovered, the latter indicating occupation throughout the second half of the first century.
		Roman Corinium lies near the junction of the Fosse Way running from NE to SW and Ermine Street running from E to W. The alignment of each section of road changes in order to approach the site of the Roman town.
	www.romansociety.org /webbrit03.htm (2654 words)

	Roman cursive
		Roman cursive is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Cursive is considered distinct from the so-called "printing" or "block letter" style of handwriting, in which the letters of a word are unconnected, and from "print-writing", which is a cross between cursive and printing, with some unconnected letter...
		When the Roman empire collapsed in the 4th century, Europe was taken over by mostly illiterate Goths; the Ostrogoths ruled Italy, the Visigoths took over Spain and southern France, the Franks settled in central and northern France and the Anglo-Saxons ran over the Celts in Great Britain.
	www.experiencefestival.com /roman_cursive (1108 words)

	Informat.io on T
		Roman capital letters are proportional to a circle and a rectangle.
		The word cursive can mean one of two things: "connected" or "informal." As an informal letter, the cursive majuscule T used by the Romans was the first T to have a curled downstroke:.
		The Italic, Roman, and fl-letter font families were the only styles in use until 1816, when a fourth--sans serif--was introduced.
	www.informat.io /?title=t (8518 words)

	Vindolanda Tablets Online \| Tablets \| Tab. Vindol. II Introductory Chapters \| Palaeography: Introduction, Capital ...
		He believes that the official script did not lead to any further developments, and that it is to the private script that we must look for those features which were to be significant for the change to NRC in the third century.
		Capital letter-forms are to be seen in the few letters preserved in 119, in 121 (here mixed with cursive forms), in 162 and 163, certainly military documents of some kind, in the consular date of 186 and, much the most surprisingly, in the lines in the margin of 206.
		Note the long tail to Q in 119, the rather crude forms in 186 (where R is close to the cursive form), the tiny O in 163, and the use of serifs here and in 162; this last document shows forms approaching those of Capitalis Rustica.
	vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk /tablets/TVII-4-1.shtml (1186 words)

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