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Article #2699Re: The use of long s in modern English typesetting
From: S Matthews
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 12:45
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 12:45
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graham@june.cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes: >I can't pretend to be authoratative, but... The long-s should be used when >the letter s occurs within a word, except when two or more s's appear >in a row, such as asset. In this case, the first s should be a long s, >and the second a short s. Incidentally, this is the origin of the >German eszet. This is not quite true; the eszet is a ligature of a long s and a z, which you can see if you open any book set in a `German' font. In roman fonts it has been distorted so much that it is difficult to see what happened. Sean -- Sean Matthews 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK Dept. of Artificial Intelligence +44 (0) 31 650 2722 University of Edinburgh sean@castle.ed.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!sean From: sean@castle.ed.ac.uk (S Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: The use of long s in modern English typesetting Message-ID: <11368@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 29 Jun 91 12:45:35 GMT References: <1991Jun27.161019.5836@d.cs.okstate.edu> <1991Jun28.230944.12624@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Organization: Edinburgh University Lines: 19