Re:Optimizing Handwriting
by koliber on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:30AM
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If we are going to do radical alphabet redesigns, I suggest coming up with new designs for each of the 26 letters so that it only takes one stroke to write each. That would probably result in an alphabet that would be more difficult to read, but it would be optimized for the number-of-strokes-for-average-english-writing heuristic.
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Re:Optimizing Handwriting
by david-given on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:51AM
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You might be interested to read about Elian:
http://www.ccelian.com/ElianScriptFull.html
I think the letter notation could use optimisation --- the cost per letter varies extensively, but the letters are assigned alphabetically, so letters near the top of the alphabet are cheaper to write than letters at the bottom --- but I like the underlying principle that it's designed for humans to write, not machines, therefore it's intended from the ground up to allow expression and choice in how you write it.