Mooning Pluto

Here’s the first paragraph of Phil Plait’s article “Mooning Pluto” on Bad Astronomy in Teeline:

Pluto is an interesting little world. Smaller than our Moon, it still boasts no fewer than five moons discovered so far. The first, Charon, was discovered in 1978, but the second through fifth were found just a few years ago using Hubble data.
Pluto is an interesting little world. Smaller than our Moon, it still boasts no fewer than five moons discovered so far. The first, Charon, was discovered in 1978, but the second through fifth were found just a few years ago using Hubble data.

I’m not really happy about how I wrote “Pluto”: Joining upwards L and T is awkward (outline 1, below). I should have writen it disjoined, I think (outline 2). But then, I’m afraid this may indicate some suffix I do not know about yet. The proper way would be to use the normal L, to which T can be easily joined (outline 3). However, this outline would hang very low below the writing line.

How to write “Pluto”?
How to write “Pluto”? 1, 2, or 3?

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Lerne gerade Stiefografie Aufbauschrift 2 / Currently learning Teeline

2 thoughts on “Mooning Pluto”

  1. I would say 2 is the most preferable of the three – T is always written disjoined after upward L, so 1 is not quite right. 3 is also correct, but is not as compact and may interfere with the line below.

    There’s actually a fourth option which you’ll come to later in the book: writing a downward L through the line (or through the previous character) signifies PL with no intervening vowel. So you could write it LTO through the line, which would be read PL-TO 🙂

  2. Thanks for pointing out the problem with version 1. The rule about disjoining T after R and L slipped from my mind. That’s why I didn’t feel happy about how I’ve written it in the text.
    The abbreviation for PL sounds interesting. It seems some useful things I don’t know about yet are coming my way. 😉

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