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From:  Valerie Sutton
Date:  Thu Dec 27, 2001  7:05 pm
Subject:  Re: ZURICH: Right & Left Placement

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December 27, 2001


ANSWER, PART 2

RIGHT-LEFT PLACEMENT CAN BE WRITTEN AS
ONE SIGN WITH A MOVEMENT ARROW...

Not all Right-Left Placement is a movement. Sometimes several signs
will stay over to the right or left for long periods of time...

BUT...

When there is a movement involved, then writing one sign with a
movement symbol between the beginning and ending positions has
several advantages...

1. Only one anchor is needed, rather than two
2. the movement arrow itself offers a fourth choice for an anchor:

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