caron in 1978

[Joel S. Berson]

One somewhat early source for "caron" is Stanley Rice's "Book Design:
Systematic Aspects" (R. R. Bowker, 1978).  But this (page 103) turns
out merely to be a reproduction of the U.S. Government Printing
Office "Manual of Style"s table of "signs and symbols" , which I
reported previously dates from 1976 (and not in any earlier edition
of this manual).  Rice does not cast any additional light on the term "caron"

However, he does include a table of "Accented Characters (Arranged by
language)" (page 105), which includes Bohemian (Czech), Lettish,
Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovakian, and Slovenian -- for each of
which this table shows some letters with a caron accent mark.

Joel

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