Historical Scandinavian currency signs (daler and mark)

2010-08-11 Thread Johan Winge
Here is a discussion of some old Scandinavian (or at least Danish) currency signs: http://forum.skalman.nu/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=35893 The forum is in the Scandinavian languages, but I suppose the pictures speak for themselves. Note especially this scan: http://forum.skalman.nu/download/file.

Re: Accessing alternate glyphs from plain text

2010-08-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Aug 11, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: > But to imply that because text always has a specific appearance, determining > the underlying plain text is an artificial process that was imposed on us by > computers seems wrong. We (meaning "readers of alphabetic scripts, at least > Latin an

Re: Accessing alternate glyphs from plain text

2010-08-11 Thread Doug Ewell
Leonardo Boiko wrote: There’s some information lost when we render our “plain text” as ancient text. Similarly, there’s some information lost when we render handwritten text, typeset text, or computer “rich text” to plain text. It seems to me these two losses are different only in degree, no