LL-L "Orthography" 2002.04.01 (07) [E]

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From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2002.04.01 (05) [E]

>From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
>I have inspected a number of facsilimes of Old Saxon texts and did not
>come across any crossed capital "b".  I believe that this is because
>this letter cannot occur word-initially, and these texts are all in
>gothic- and uncial-style scripts with no all-capital portions.  However,
>I will keep looking.
>
>A capital version of the letter would, in my opinion, only be needed for
>all-caps portions in modern use.  If such a letter were created I would
>suggest that only the left-hand bar be crossed rather than the entire
>top.

As used in Vietnam, the left hand bar only is crossed, but the bottom
half of it:

>>I wrote before about typesetting Vietnam Highlands documents, and, for the
>>most part, all of my problems have been resolved (thanks to all who made
>>suggestions).  The one character I'm still missing, however, is a capital B
>>with a dash (in the glyph, the dash is typically written through the bottom
>>half of the vertical line).
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Orthography

> From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2002.04.01 (05) [E]
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> As used in Vietnam, the left hand bar only is crossed, but the bottom
> half of it

I suppose this would do if such a character already exists and is used
for one or more other language varieties, though this bottom thing does
not make as much sense to me because the lower-case equivalent is not
crossed in the bottom part -- cf. the crossed "d" (e.g., for Vietnamese)
whose capital is crossed in the middle left, and crossed "h" (e.g., for
Maltese) whose capital version is crossed through the top (abeit all the
way through).

See my illustration:
http://www.geocities.com/sassisch/rhahn/low-saxon/crossed-b.htm

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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