At 21:07 -0700 2001-10-27, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>>well, guys,
>>i don't think we're going to get anything much better than this.
>>this recollection predates 1984 by a *long* time.
>>cheers. -- bb
Asmus, Barbara,
I have to distrust this. I did a search for "Mergenthaler Linotype
caron" on Google and got nothing. The text Frank mentions is from
http://www.slavism.com/slovak/abc.htm, which has no mention of
Mergenthaler Linotype. What we need is a scan of the relevant
sections of the "giant book".
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:44:19 -0700
>>From: Frank Romano
>>To: Barbara Beeton <bnb@ams.org>
>>Subject: Re: origin of the term "caron"
>>
>>Hello
>>
>>Back at the old Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Broooklyn, NY every glyph
>>had a name and a number--which related to millions of punches used to make
>>matrices. These glyphs were recorded in giant books in the center of the
>>order department with a duplicate set in matrix manufacturing. The Slovak
>>diacritic was called a "caron" and no derivation was ever recorded.
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