Formerly under the jurisdiction of Committee E30 on Forensic Sciences, this terminology was withdrawn in January 2018 in accordance with section 10.6.3 of the Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees, which requires that standards shall be updated by the end of the eighth year since the last approval date.

1.1 This terminology standard includes terms that relate to the examination performed by forensic document examiners.

Note 1—The terms in the Terminology Section refer to typical copybook styles of writing and do not account for exceptional forms.