I need your help!

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

And this diagram:

http://www.owlsoup.com/foamtrain/anatomy.html

should be helpful as well.

>
> >
> > I am writing a children's story, and have anthropomorphized
> letters of
> > = the alphabet.  I have a need to make my letters move their "arms,
> > legs, = and dots," as well as any other letter "body" part
> that might
> > be able to = move.
> >
> > Are there names for the different parts of a letter, such
> as the legs
> > of = an A, or the individual two lines of a T, etc.
> > etc.  What about the dot = on an i, as well as the curve on
> the bottom
> > of the letter J?  My = linguistics professors at UWEC suggested I
> > contact this listserv --- = that you fine folks have all the right
> > answers!  Is there a reference I = can find for these
> names, or does
> > one of you have a handy cheat sheet = for this?
> >
> > If the parts don't have names (and what doesn't have a name
> in this =
> > world?  :-) if you think you have a couple good names to use for
> > parts, = feel free to share these as well...I'm more than
> happy to use
> > really = neat fictitious names as well.
>
> stems, ascenders, descenders, diacritical marks
>
> This glossary:
>
> http://www.owlsoup.com/foamtrain/glossary/bbb.html
>
> has some terms that you are probably looking for.
>
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