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Yalkut ha-Sofer (thanks MG for typing it up):
וי"ו של תיבת "בריתי שלום" צ"ל קטיעה [קידושין דף ס"ו ע"ב], ורבו הדעות איך יש לעשותו, עיין בספר משנת אברהם סי' ל"א, שאסף אותם, ובשו"ת רעק"א סי' ע"ה, מסיק דהעיקר הוא לעשות וי"ו זעירא, ולרווחא דמילתא יעשה כשיטת הריטב"א, שיכתוב וי"ו זעירא ויניח מעט הפסק, ואח"כ יכתוב עוד קו קטן, וכך ציוה לעשות בס"ת שלו, וכעין זה הביא המשנ"א שם בשם הרה"ק ר' אפרים סופר זצ"ל, דעשה את הקטיעה באלכסון, אולם בדיעבד אם כתב כשאר הווי"ן אין לפסול.
The vav in the word "beriti shlom" must be written broken (Kiddushin 66b), and there are many opinions as to how it is done, see the Mishnat Avraham 31 who explores them. Note the responsa of the Rak"a 75, who think you should not break it at all but write it little. Basically though one ought to make as per the Ritva, who says you ought to write a small vav and leave a little gap, and after that write a little line, and that was how he said it should be done in his sefer Torah. The Mishnat Avraham says something similar in the name of the Raha"k R' Ephraim Sofer, who says you should make the break diagonal. And if you made it just like all the other vavs, one doesn't declare it invalid.
I sometimes wonder whether one can make the broken vav by hak tokhot, erasing. You aren't allowed to make letters by scraping away ink that's already on the page, but you are sometimes allowed to prettify letters by scraping. So if you start with a regular vav, and make the break in it by scraping, you still have a vav, so arguably that's permitted. On the other hand, you accomplished something that made an important difference in the letter, by scraping, and that's arguably problematic. (Someone probably deals with it somewhere and I just haven't read it yet, if you want to tell me where, that'd be nice.)
וי"ו של תיבת "בריתי שלום" צ"ל קטיעה [קידושין דף ס"ו ע"ב], ורבו הדעות איך יש לעשותו, עיין בספר משנת אברהם סי' ל"א, שאסף אותם, ובשו"ת רעק"א סי' ע"ה, מסיק דהעיקר הוא לעשות וי"ו זעירא, ולרווחא דמילתא יעשה כשיטת הריטב"א, שיכתוב וי"ו זעירא ויניח מעט הפסק, ואח"כ יכתוב עוד קו קטן, וכך ציוה לעשות בס"ת שלו, וכעין זה הביא המשנ"א שם בשם הרה"ק ר' אפרים סופר זצ"ל, דעשה את הקטיעה באלכסון, אולם בדיעבד אם כתב כשאר הווי"ן אין לפסול.
The vav in the word "beriti shlom" must be written broken (Kiddushin 66b), and there are many opinions as to how it is done, see the Mishnat Avraham 31 who explores them. Note the responsa of the Rak"a 75, who think you should not break it at all but write it little. Basically though one ought to make as per the Ritva, who says you ought to write a small vav and leave a little gap, and after that write a little line, and that was how he said it should be done in his sefer Torah. The Mishnat Avraham says something similar in the name of the Raha"k R' Ephraim Sofer, who says you should make the break diagonal. And if you made it just like all the other vavs, one doesn't declare it invalid.
I sometimes wonder whether one can make the broken vav by hak tokhot, erasing. You aren't allowed to make letters by scraping away ink that's already on the page, but you are sometimes allowed to prettify letters by scraping. So if you start with a regular vav, and make the break in it by scraping, you still have a vav, so arguably that's permitted. On the other hand, you accomplished something that made an important difference in the letter, by scraping, and that's arguably problematic. (Someone probably deals with it somewhere and I just haven't read it yet, if you want to tell me where, that'd be nice.)
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