From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 14:03:58 EDT
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 10:21 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Michael Everson scripsit:
>
> > > A good choice if you don't slash your DIGIT SEVENs and can make
> > > your DIGIT ONEs sufficiently distinct.
> >
> > Eh? I *do* slash my DIGITs SEVEN and I use a single vertical stroke
> > from my DIGITs ONE. The TIRONIAN SIGN ET as used in Ireland has no
> > horizontal stroke.
>
> I should have said "do slash your DIGIT SEVENs". So the glyph in the
> Unicode 3.0 book is not typical of Irish practice? It seems to have a
> horizontal stroke all right.
In French too: children at school learn to use an horizontal stroke when
drawing a digit seven, and the oblique stroke is often curved to become
vertical at its central base (not placed at the left corner, and uses a
small loop to connect to the top horizontal stroke. I have always used
a medial horizontal stroke on my sevens, often starting it the top left
corner with a tiny loop too to create a vertical serif...
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