Awesome! For anyone that think doctors' handwriting is unintelligible, wait till I give that thing a spin
Yes, I thought something which could make my handwriting more like a font would be useful.
FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
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Seems like open source is the way to defeat this. Anyone can easily create a competing service, which they then have to buy out, but the cost of setting up a new one is minimal. Interesting business model that feeds on anti-competitive businesses.
Interestingly, Overleaf is open source [0], although I can't speak to how well the open source version works. [0] https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf
IIRC, it is nerfed out. It is more open core than actual open source, and the paywalled features of the online version are missing.
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#53Awesome! For anyone that think doctors' handwriting is unintelligible, wait till I give that thing a spin
I have long theorized that it is inscrutable for a reason: as a bar to laypeople reading a/o editing prescriptions.
Turning "30 pills of Pennicillin, refill 0 times" into "30 pills of OxyContin, refill 3 times" is much harder when you can't even figure out which part is the drug name.
(Kids who are about to point out this couldn't work: Prescriptions used to be hand-written on paper, and never checked by the then-inexistent interwebs.)
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I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
It's more cultural than generational.
It's both. In the US, schools are turning away from teaching cursive, which clearly makes a generational cut.
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#56Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?
Ironically, that's exactly what calligraphy is.
And learning to write in 'fonts' (hands) like block-print is still a form of calligraphy.
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#57Amazing way to show-case a tool (all in-browser, can be done so simply), super disappointed in the result. I took care writing all the letters, but when I looked at the generated font, even some of the corner markers ended up as letters!? Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?
I guess it's cause cursive is no longer a thing in the US..
Nor spelling and punctuation?
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#58I'm dysgraphic with a small essential tremor, and often write in a hybrid between cursive & block gothic. I'd need to make a few dozen different fonts & have it randomly pick between them for each letter to look like my handwriting.
My drafting lettering is OK. But it's much, much slower & requires a straightedge, multiple thickness pencils, an eraser shield, and an eraser.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's more cultural than generational.
It's both. In the US, schools are turning away from teaching cursive, which clearly makes a generational cut.
My understanding is that they started turning away from it, but have turned back in many states. We were told it was important that we delay teaching our child typing until they had finished learning cursive because it had been discovered that teaching cursive developed something or other that I zoned out on while waiting to ask when that would be. Education has fads that don't seem to line up with peer reviewed articles that well. For instance, current reading instruction is non optimal for dyslexic students, while early 20th century instruction seems to (not entirely intentionally) worked much better.
Edit: Apparently it has to do with dyslexia and executive functioning. California and Texas amongst others have now required it be resumed. So there is a roughly decade long gap in cursive in the us, maybe a little less.
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#60Not great for doctors