Re: Capital Sharp S in the News

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 19:49:25 CDT

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Otto Stolz <Otto dot Stolz at uni dash konstanz dot de> wrote:

>> De hoofdletter is een opgepompte versie met een hoekige bovenkant.
>
> The capital letter is a blown-up version with a pointed upper
> vertex.
>
> Not entirely to the point:
> · The exact glyph form is still under debate, hence you cannot (yet)
> describe it in this way.

Exact glyph forms are never as normative as that anyway. There isn't a
single letter in the everyday Latin script (as opposed to IPA), or
probably any other script, that isn't subject to at least some
legitimate glyph variation.

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