[srik]

> The hardest thing for me to learn about it, with which I still struggle, is keeping the arm posture correct.

It’s great that you recognize this handicap as dealing with it sooner rather than later is a good; bad posture is indeed harder to correct later as we know. The first measure you can take is course correcting yourself over shorter intervals i.e.Move The Paper towards yourself with no shame, even during the length of a line, as often as need be. Even Louis Madarasz did it, so don’t hesitate. But I think your fix becomes a habit, it becomes a non-issue later.

> ... the proscribed 52 degree writing angle for Spencerian is almost exactly what you get matching the diagonal on an 8.5" by 11" piece of paper

If this is true, you just blew my mind, thanks for sharing the discovery.

[jonsen]

> If this is true

  arctan( 11 / 8.5 )