White-out Over Ink?

[takkun]

Constantly! (I make a lot of mistakes. ) I use this:

 

 

It really is a pin-pointed pen. What I do is write the correct text right over the incorrect text, then I use the fine point to apply white to the wrong lines, leaving the right lines in place. That way one is not writing on top of the corrector. Works well on white or off-white paper.

 

(Edited to correct typo.)

Now THAT'S a cool idea. The ink eradicator is nifty, but that limits you to royal blue. So many other colors in the rainbow, like BSB!

[Aunt Jill]

In the Doomsday Book, written 1086, red line-outs were used for corrections and alterations.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/public/style_images/IP.Board/rte_icons/picture.png

Red line-outs were also used as highlighting. Sounds confusing, but it's a calligraphic masterpiece.

 

Highlighting and strikeouts, which is which?

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1323/5158737349_9d2e1f7c84.jpg

 

 

 

Your choice of images from the Domesday Book can be found here. The data is digitized now, in case you're looking for English ancestors.

Edited November 8, 2010 by Aunt Jill

[chrevbel]

(Edited to correct typo.)

This made my day. I'm not kidding! Whether intentional or not, thank you for the chuckle.

[chrevbel]

In the Doomsday Book, written 1086, red line-outs were used for corrections and alterations.

And the Japanese instrument of surrender in 1945 featured strike-outs. Several signers signed in the wrong place, and they struck out the names and re-wrote them. (Wikipedia if you'd like -- it's a pretty interesting story.) One of the more important documents of the 20th century. I'd say striking out passes muster!

[CS388]

Thanks for the link, Aunt Jill. Didn't realise that it had been digitized.

 

As far as I recall, the place names and titled people were 'highlighted' with a red line through the middle of the word.

This was to enable quick referencing (before the days of Google search), so that the book could be used efficiently.

 

The corrections and alterations in red ink were less to do with errors and more to do with changes in land allocation/ownership after the original book had been compiled.

 

I'm half guessing/half remembering all this, so I could be well wrong - but may go onto the link later and remind myself!

[Goodwhiskers]

Pilot/Namiki Black writes well over correction tape or white-out.

 

Levenger Cocoa writes well over correction tape.

 

I've never had trouble getting white-out or correction tape to cover up fountain pen ink writing.

[Garageboy]

How do you pick out the ink?

[coldman]

I'd be worried about getting bits of white-out into the nib. I find blots of white-out generally look worse than a scribbled-out word, anyway.

[Joane]

I'd be worried about getting bits of white-out into the nib. I find blots of white-out generally look worse than a scribbled-out word, anyway.

That's why I do the over-writing first and white out the wrong lines afterward.

[Pengrump]

In the body of a text of any sort, I just cross out the mistake. When addressing an envelope, if I make an error, I simply write the correct version on a stick-on label and stick it over the incorrect one. That means re-writing the entire address, but I don't mind.