30-07-2018, 08:44 PM
@ Emma:
Well if that's a pen problem, the problem must be in a certain impairment of the pen. Because there are plenty of gallows elsewhere in the folio, including same lines, which do not exhibit this behavior at all. But these occasional outbursts of saturation occur for many folios ahead. I think we should separate this from the very writing technique, to which I'd rather attribute the elusory "two-pass-ness" - something like JKP describes it. It's curious though that this does not negate hooks, which are still there. For some reason, the pen does not stop at the lowest point of i, it continues past the salient point, drawing the hook, and only then it appends the tail in the second stroke. I guess this might be the consequence of the quill being rotated about its axis, which occurs at the end of the hook.
Well if that's a pen problem, the problem must be in a certain impairment of the pen. Because there are plenty of gallows elsewhere in the folio, including same lines, which do not exhibit this behavior at all. But these occasional outbursts of saturation occur for many folios ahead. I think we should separate this from the very writing technique, to which I'd rather attribute the elusory "two-pass-ness" - something like JKP describes it. It's curious though that this does not negate hooks, which are still there. For some reason, the pen does not stop at the lowest point of i, it continues past the salient point, drawing the hook, and only then it appends the tail in the second stroke. I guess this might be the consequence of the quill being rotated about its axis, which occurs at the end of the hook.
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