Maltose on Fischer Projection

I was googling for a while and that's giving me idea to post a Maltose structure on Fischer Projection. Though it was not normally used, I think that may be helpful.
Maltose on Fischer Projection

I made this using Microsoft Word and Windows Paint.

First of all it could be written as 1,4 but it would seem as waste as all the glycosidic bond starts from the first -OH of the first monomer. So we just write the place where the second monomer connected by the glycosidic bond.

Second, we write a capital O because truthfully we can not make it certain whether it was α or β but glucose was normally occur in nature as α so we continue it with α.

Third, D was means that -OH from the second O from the bottom Carbon atom (C-5 on hexose) is on the right position so it's named D, Dextro.

Fourth, the name Glucopyranosyl came from the structure "Pyran" of Haworth projection. Glucose and other aldohexose are normally made that structure in nature.

Fifth, the latter monomer is just simply written normally like the glucose from a monosaccharide.

Okay so that's all. I also want to show the normal version in Haworth projection so you could compare the both.

And the last if there is a mistake please leave a comment or leave any kind of message to me, thanks.

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