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This class describes stylistic variations of texts, including local script styles (as the Carolingian minuscule for the Latin script) and individual scribal hands. It includes: the general appearance of the script, in terms of general design, aspects related to a bilinear system (i.e., upper- and lowercase), measures (i.e., large, medium or small), shape and number of strokes forming a character, its order and direction. A style includes also information about ductus (the direction the text), ligatures and nexi (i.e., the connection between characters obtained by tracing them without detaching the writing instrument from the support and using one or more strokes in common), and the writing angle (i.e., the position the writing instrument is located with respect to the support). The style corresponds to fonts and their variations in the modern printing process.

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