From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Nov 19 2005 - 05:06:00 CST
At 23:04 -0800 2005-11-18, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>>German was not, in Roman type, normally written with the long s.
>
>This is flatly incorrect. I have in my possession a scan from an old book
>that clearly shows the use of long s in the word 'disposition' - which,
>as common for words of Latin origin when part of a German text,
>is printed in Roman style in an otherwise Fraktur book.
That is an example of Roman long s used in a German book, not an
example of German text being set in Roman type with the long s.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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