Re: Is long s a presentation form?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 12:22:57 EST

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I like to think of the long s as similar to the final sigma. Nobody
thinks that final sigma should be a presentation form of sigma.

Nobody really uses long s in modern Roman typography, and it's a lot
more convenient to have this as a separate character for the
nonce-uses that it has than to expect font designers round the world
to add special shaping tables to all their fonts just for this
critter.

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