From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 21:07:49 EST
At 01:24 PM 12/28/2003, John Delacour wrote:
>English practice was generally, I think, to write the long s first but
>_printed_ double s is always two tall longs, certainly in the 18th century:
I have seen numerous examples of printed English longs+s from the 18th century.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
What was venerated as style was nothing more than
an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
- Orhan Pamuk, _My name is red_
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