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40 n e t w o r k & p e o p l e Completely In Line Curves and corners Handwriting is as individual as the writers themselves. This has been known since 1622. At that time, an Italian doctor and philosopher, Camillo Baldi, looked into how a person’s handwriting can reveal their personality. In addition to this, handwriting is influenced by national characteristics. This holds true not only for the different characters of the alphabet, such as in Japanese, Hebrew or Cyrillic script, but even Roman script is written differently by children in Austria or France than in Germany or in America. However, there is one thing that remains the same all over the world: generations of primary school pupils practise lines and lines of curves, arches and ticks until handwriting becomes routine. Apart from writing instruments, more than anything, paper with lines is indispensable – and these lines follow their own rules worldwide.
issue #2 © l i n k e d 41 The pages have four lines per row and a learning house at the beginning and end of each row. This helps first graders, in Germany, to assimilate the ascenders, mid lengths and descenders of letters. swg-online.de/lineaturen france The most popular and widely used format for lines in France is the “grands carreaux” (large squares) or “réglure Seyès”. It originated from the paper trader, Jean-Alexandre Seyès, who developed this system of lines in 1892, and even had its design registered at a court in Pontoise. With its large number of horizontal and vertical reference points, the “réglure Seyès” simplified the teachers’ work enormously. That is to say that they could now give clear guidance as to the lengths of the ascenders and descenders, the size of the letters as well as the right positioning of the accents, without moving from their own desk. With the introduction of compulsory schooling in 1882, the classes had increased up to 50 pupils. It was, therefore, no longer possible for teachers to check individually how their pupils were learning to write nor to make adjustments by guiding their pupils’ hands. This distinctive arrangement of lines is still used in France and in North Africa by all grades today. It is only supplemented by small squares for mathematical subjects. In the 1980s the “grands carreaux” made advances in Germany, becoming a trendy product with students and yuppies. germany Unlike France, German pupils have a total of 34 sets of lines available to them – not counting the ones for the first writing and maths exercises. The reason may be that primary school pupils in Germany learn the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet in four different writing styles. In the East German states, the style of writing that is still often taught is the one that was introduced by the GDR in 1968. In the West however, many primary schools start with block lettering, progressing then to cursive script in the second and third grade. Depending on the teacher’s personal preference, this is either the Lateinische Ausgangsschrift (LA) style of writing or the simplified version, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift (VA). There are exercise books available in all sorts of variations to make learning and practising easier: there is the extralarge or seven-line system, exercise books with a colourcontrasted background, a pronounced middle field or dotted lines in the middle, ones for left-handed and righthanded people, punched on both sides, with a margin on the left or the right or on both sides. The shopping lists at the beginning of a school year are elaborate and tricky – regardless of the colour and quality of the cover, which can also be specified by the teacher.
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