Today I read for the first time the word violent written in French DJS. I was surprised to see that the i circle was written on the back on the v curve instead of inside. I was wondering :
1/why? I have tried writing the i inside the v and then adding the o under it, and to my (untrained) eye it looked clear and flowing. If the only advantage of writing the i outside is to have it perfectly lined up vertically with the o, then I don’t really see the point…
2/whether this is something typical of DJS, or whether all Gregg series have always written this combination like that.
Thanks.
EDIT: adding an image
Can you post a picture, please?
🙂
Yes, I’ve edited it to add an image.
Yes, the resulting form is rather complex…
Sorry, no example of such combinaison in the Sénécal, except at the end of the line like in 'folio', 'radio', which are much easier to draw.
Apparently, they have considered it was better to be less complicated: one of the vowels is simply omitted. I took me a while to recognize 'violon' in 'v-i-l-n'… 🙂
PS. I may have exaggerated the dip between the V and the I in my version of the manual’s outline. In reality it looks more like a small S than an O like I made it. But in my opinion it still looks like something that shouldn’t be here.
Probably because the “o” is a curve so it behaves like the “a” in vapour, presumably also French vapeur.
You wrote visolant,
. I know it's not a real word, but write the word vaisseau so that you can see why you have to put the circle in violent where it is. By keeping the vowels together (in the same direction), you know that it is a vowel combination without any intervening consonants. That is why is written the way it is. The same principle applies to fioriture, fiole, and fione vs. faisceau.
Oh right thanks everyone, it all makes sense now. So I take it the i-circle should really hug the back of the v-curve then, and not be separated from it? Because what bothered me initially was the gap between the v and the i, which could look like an s (Carlos, in the DJS manual on p.266, first outline on the 5th line, you can see what I’m talking about).
The circle should be written on the back of the v, yes, with no space. I see why you were confused. We know her penmanship was not the best for an introductory manual, but it's legible: