From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2010 - 02:48:32 CST
On 11 Mar 2010, at 23:21, Andrew West wrote:
> As the ß-form ligature normally only occurs in italic text, and in
> roman text the same word is normally written using either a ligatured
> ſſ medially or an unligatured ſs finally, I would agree with David
> that what looks like ß in English (French, Italian, etc.) should best
> be represented as an ſs ligature (I would use ſ-ZWJ-s to indicate to
> the font that a ligature is required), and that way a suitably
> designed italic font would use a ß-glyph whereas a roman font would
> not.
As would I.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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