Interesting. I knew there were different forms of the script, but I never considered that to be “cursive” as I thought cursive had to mean that the letters were connected together. Guess I was wrong about that.
In the terms used in the art of handwriting, “cursive” refers to handwritten forms in which the letters are not connected together. “Script” refers to handwriting in which the letters are connected.
In everyday use, both “script” and “cursive” refer to any handwritten form except the kind intended to imitate printed forms (“print,” “block letters,” etc.).
I find it interesting to note that all but one of the Russian-Cyrillic letters with “different” (as opposed to merely size-variant) forms between upper and lower case are identical to Roman alphabet characters in both cases, though without the same sounds: Aa (ah), Ee (yeh), and Pp (r). While lowercase B is shown in Times New Roman Cyrillic as a small-cap B, I have seen it written as “b” (and, also carrying on the tradition, it stands for the /v/ sound, Russian B being written as Бб (the one non-Roman variant).
And, as pulykamell notes:
My first name, David, is printed in Cyrillic as Давид, but written in cursive as Dabug
Got a cite for that? I’m not claiming that I know you’re wrong, and I can see that there could be technical terms defined as you have defined them that differ from the everyday usage, but according to several dictionaries, my original definition is correct:
I would have thought “script” just meant any kind of handwriting, per the Latin root for “write”.
I don’t have a cite at hand. I’ve read it in several books on handwriting and typography. The closest I can come to is this page, which under its definition of “cursive” says that it can be joined or not, but adds:
So, yeah, its a pretty specialized jargon.