'longhand' is an acceptable and common word in written English.
It is usually used to refer to handwriting or a written form of communication. For example: I prefer to write essays in longhand because I find it easier to concentrate.
Hundreds of interviews were recorded in longhand, typed up in single spacing and arranged in piles.
He loved the sheer act of it, writing every morning and always in longhand.
Elmore Leonard, the author of such hugely successful crime novels as "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight", will publish his latest novella online despite the fact that, at 75, he still writes his fiction longhand and does not even own a computer.
This typically involves downloading an image of a specimen, deciphering the various comments that experts have written next to it in longhand, and entering this information in an organised fashion on a website.
Several witnesses are dead or cannot remember, much evidence is long lost, and Uganda's legal system is often unable to deal with the simplest crimes, let alone this one.Mr Mukiibi, who takes the official court record in longhand, is juggling 30 cases before him this session, over half of which involve the crime of "defilement" (the age of consent is treated as a rough guideline in much of Uganda).
Yet she lived for 27 years in a converted 13th-century church in Tuscany, happily eschewing the literary whirl, writing longhand in spiral-bound notebooks that were sent to her from Edinburgh.
Thus a handwriting analyst (while sitting on a boat on the Hudson as Hamilton might have done) points at the Ts that are not crossed and the Is that are not dotted in Hamilton's longhand, because Hamilton was just too fast a thinker to slow down for such technicalities.That detail, indeed, says an awful lot about the great man.
He rose early and wrote, in longhand on the right-hand page of large blocks, later correcting on the left-hand page.
Later in life he kept the usual poet's habits, shut up by himself, writing in scrupulously neat longhand with no deletions.
Here Caro writes the old-fashioned way: in longhand, on large legal pads.
Written in Thomas Shelton's system of shorthand, or tachygraphy, with the names in longhand, it extends to 1,250,000 words, filling six quarto volumes in the Pepys Library.
