In the previous posts, I have been outlining a model for describing handwriting. As promised earlier, I now want to outline how this may work in practice. To do this, I wish to provide a first draft of a complete description of the letters, components and features of English ...
In the previous post, I promised to give more concrete examples of how this system might work in practice. Before doing so, however, I first want to recap a bit and try to formalise the discussion so far. I was brought up with UML, Unified Modelling Language, which ...
The European Science Foundation recently sponsored an Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography which was held at the University of Würzburg and organised by Dr Malte Rehbein. The DigiPal project was featured there, including a presentation by Dr Stewart Brookes, and the abstract and slides of his talk are ...
Continuing from Part I of this series on describing handwriting, we have outlined a 'high-level' conceptual system for describing letters in a computer from a palaeographical viewpoint. We can now start to add labels to these entities: that is, to decide on terminology. This is the point that has ...