Re: Latin chi and stretched x

On 2012-06-08, David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Denis Jacquerye <moyogo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you sure it's not the opposite? Dorsey had a typewriter that
>> didn't have his turned letters, so he used crossed lines below to
>> indicate what letters should be turned when printed.
>
> I don't have a source to refer to, but two things make me find my
> memory more likely here. One, this work was done in 1881 and there
> were no field-portable typewriters then; IIRC, typewriters as a whole
> were rare and he probably sent in his work handwritten.

Dorsey's notes for his Omaha-Ponca dictionary are available online at
http://omahalanguage.unl.edu/dictionary/index.html
They are typed; and the turned letters are notated with a
(hand-written) cross below them, as Denis said. There are also some
handwritten annotations using the same convention. I don't know when
this was done, but at least by then he seems to have been using the
same notation in manuscript as in typescript.

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