On 14 Feb 2005 at 9:25, Florence + Michael wrote: > At 16:51 -0500 13/02/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > >I'm not sure where you're getting the "sz" from -- that is not what > >it is at all. If you look at it in German schrift (i.e., > >handwriting), it's quite clear that it's two s's, one the "f-like" > >version followed by a crook to a regular lower-case s. > > In German, this letter is called "Eszett", which is a combination of > the German names for "S' and 'Z'. For more information, see the > "Eszett-Seite": http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~ma8/eszet.html > See also http://faql.de/art19970226a.html and > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F German scholars apparently can't > agree if it comes from a ligature of a long S with a round S, or a > ligature of a long S with a Z.
I honestly didn't know that. In reading German Schrift, it always seemed completely clear that it was long s + round s. I do know that some fonts that I've seen look like a ligature of f + z (Book Antiqua is one), where "f" stands for the long s that vanished from English in the 19th century. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
