the two mirs

[William Ryan]

Tsuji,

On one point in your message: <I wonder how Peter the Great wanted to
print the short I
without using I(8).> Peter's first intention was to abolish the
i-vos'merichnoe (i.e. the modern Russian i). The Geometria printed in
the 'civil alphabet' in Moscow in 1708 has only single stroke i's in all
words, with no dot. I believe I have seen this in the variant j (but
undotted) but can't find a specimen to quote you. This practice was soon
abandoned - a 1710 alphabet book has the i-vos'merichnoe restored.

Will Ryan

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