Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Everson
On 11 Jan 2013, at 01:22, Asmus Freytag wrote: > http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4791646751032057&pid=1.7&w=176&h=155&c=7&rs=1 You're asking whether it's a wether? Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Asmus Freytag
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4791646751032057&pid=1.7&w=176&h=155&c=7&rs=1 ?? Relation? Visual or otherwise. Pun? (Note the similarity :widder: :wider:) Just thinking out loud. A./

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Plantema
Op vrijdag 11 januari 2013 00:33 schreef Jukka K. Korpela: On title of a 1932/33 book on the "Principle of Contradiction" - a mathematical/logical character in use for book printing??? … so the real title is different, and we still don’t know the author. "Principle of contradiction" is a tra

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Everson
On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:57, Gerrit Ansmann wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:17:09 +0100, Michael Everson > wrote: > >> Randomly reversed long s? > > Hmm, this would not fit the sloped serif. Rather a flipped, dotless j. Well, yes, though dot less j isn't very German. The long s seemed slightly

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Gerrit Ansmann
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:17:09 +0100, Michael Everson wrote: Randomly reversed long s? Hmm, this would not fit the sloped serif. Rather a flipped, dotless j. Wildly guessing, I would say, that whoever made the cover wanted it to reflect “Widerspruch” (contradiction) or the tertium non datur

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-01-11 1:04, Elbrecht wrote: the URL is: www.elbrecht.com/SW.png Well, the *URL* is http://www.elbrecht.com/SW.png or http://elbrecht.com/SW.png (I really thought it was just a local filename when I saw your first email.) problem is,

RE: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Doug Ewell
In that case, it's just a nonce doodle, and there's no demonstrated need to encode it. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­ Original Message Subject: Re: help with an unknown character From: Elbrecht Date: Thu, January 10, 2013 4:04 pm To: "Jukk

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Everson
On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:04, Elbrecht wrote: > problem is, there isn't any context in the book itself - > just an erractic character on the hardcover: > > www.elbrecht.com/PC.png Randomly reversed long s? Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Elbrecht
Jucca - the URL is: www.elbrecht.com/SW.png problem is, there isn't any context in the book itself - just an erractic character on the hardcover: www.elbrecht.com/PC.png HE # # # On Jan 10, 2013

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Elbrecht wrote: > Hi - > > any help with an unknown character - very appreciated: > > elbrecht.com/SW.png [400KB] > > On title of a 1932/33 book on the "Principle of Contradiction" - > a mathematical/logical character in use for book print

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Everson
On 10 Jan 2013, at 22:28, Elbrecht wrote: > any help with an unknown character - very appreciated: > > elbrecht.com/SW.png [400KB] > > On title of a 1932/33 book on the "Principle of Contradiction" - > a mathematical/logical character in use for book printing??? Pleas

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-01-11 0:28, Elbrecht wrote: any help with an unknown character - very appreciated: elbrecht.com/SW.png [400KB] You probably tried to attach an image, but it was not sent or it was stripped off by the mailing list software. Please upload the image in some onlin

help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Elbrecht
Hi - any help with an unknown character - very appreciated: elbrecht.com/SW.png [400KB] On title of a 1932/33 book on the "Principle of Contradiction" - a mathematical/logical character in use for book printing??? Thanks Elbrecht # # # ›The fact that you know,

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 1/10/2013 5:21 AM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le 10/01/2013 11:08, Otto Stolz a écrit : Hello, le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on those old printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic subject

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 10/01/2013 00:31, Asmus Freytag a écrit : Would you be able to provide a more complete copy of the article in question. It would allow those of us with the proper background to look for any other potential documents using the character in questio

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 10/01/2013 11:08, Otto Stolz a écrit : Hello, le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on those old printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic subjects... Am 2013-01-09 um 18:16 schrieb Frédéric Gr

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 1/10/2013 2:08 AM, Otto Stolz wrote: Hello, le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on those old printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic subjects... Am 2013-01-09 um 18:16 schrieb Frédéric Gros

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Otto Stolz
Hello, le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on those old printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic subjects... Am 2013-01-09 um 18:16 schrieb Frédéric Grosshans: Actually, the preceding tool combi