[tex-live] merging texmf-doc into texmf-dist

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Thu Feb 19 11:05:01 CET 2009


>> Note, however, that most of the simplified character shapes are not
>> arbitrary but based on hand-written forms of `Caoshu' (草書), a
>> kind of cursive script used since centuries to write texts very
>> quickly with a brush.
> 
> Interestingly, Daniels and Bright [1] say nothing about this.

See

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoshu


     Werner


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