t's boldly crossed



Let me ask a question about the following sentences from a novel.

Centered on the light table to his left was a clean sheet of white paper
(-omitted-)
Hitting a key, he enlarged the area he wanted to work on, then
began painting it with shades of grey. I sat very still while shapes
began to slowly materilize out of a literary limbo, curves here, dots there,
and t's boldly crossed.


(P. Cornwell - Cruel and Unusual)

context: He's a finger-prints examiner, at this moment trying to make out letters from
indentations left on a sheet of paper through computorized image enhancement.
question: about "t's boldly crossed"
How's it shaped?

I've drawn an image like follows:
http://lightstriking.com/test/1.jpg

My image is: a letter of "t" crossed with a clear line or bar

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