At 12:16 AM -0400 6/8/03, Jim Allan wrote:
The _per_ sign can also be found (along with other symbols not
currently in Unicode) in the most recent U.S. Government Printing
Office Style Manual at
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/stylemanual/2000/chap10.pdf.
FWIW There's an interesting similarity between
Doug Ewell posted:
Tsk tsk. This is the Unicode list. ALL characters are special.
Quite true, except in a some particular context.
Note that I did not use the word "special" in my own explanations.
It appeared only in the quotations I supplied from the OED website.
For an example of valid use
Jim Allan wrote:
> 2. Enter your search terms in the boxes in the usual way, except that
> if the word you are looking for contains an accented letter or other
> special character, enter its name instead of its plain letter
> equivalent, e.g. type caf#eacu# to find café.
Tsk tsk. This is the Un
Noah Levitt posted in response to my indication that one could search
for special symbols in the on-line OED:
How can one?
The symbols available at
http://dictionary.oed.com/public/help/Advanced/symbols.htm are
"searchable special characters used in the OED."
The method to be used is explaine
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:30:30 -0400, Jim Allan wrote:
>
> One can quickly search for these symbols in the OED web edition.
How can one?
Noah
Jarkko posted:
Yes, I can understand that having to browse through the whole of OED to find out
where e.g. the hypolemniscus is being used sounds a little bit, uhm, tedious...
One can quickly search for these symbols in the OED web edition.
That is actually what the page I cited is for, to give
;s reputedly on p. 190 of the
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and track down information on one or
more characters, that would be great. I'd be happy to collect the results
and organize them for review.
On the question of the letterforms based on p, I have gotten excellent
feedback, and can r
> - what is the symbol used for [most lists are silent on this question]
Yes, I can understand that having to browse through the whole of OED to find out
where e.g. the hypolemniscus is being used sounds a little bit, uhm, tedious...
> - what is the symbol not used for [a subtle but importantly d
> It also appears along with other symbols used in the OED at
> http://dictionary.oed.com/public/help/Advanced/symbols.htm#mod1letter.
> (Again, not all these symbols are currently part of Unicode.)
To state the obvious (and "random email does not official character proposals make")
Unicode havi
Asmus Freytag posted:
I keep coming across a letterlike symbol based on the letter p. In going
through my collections, I found it listed in a table of symbols in an
excerpt from the US Government Printing office style manual from 1984.
That symbol is named 'per'
The _per_ sign can also be found (a
From: "Lukas Pietsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >I was hoping to find someone who had additional evidence for this
> character.
>
> I happened to come across it the other day in a modern printed edition
> of 17th- to 19th century handwritten English letters (Miller, Kerby
> A., Arnold Schrier, Bruce
> >I was hoping to find someone who had additional evidence for this
character.
I happened to come across it the other day in a modern printed edition
of 17th- to 19th century handwritten English letters (Miller, Kerby
A., Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, & David N. Doyle. 2002. _Irish
immigrants
Asmus Freytag wrote:
>
> I keep coming across a letterlike symbol based on the letter p. In going
> through my collections, I found it listed in a table of symbols in an
> excerpt from the US Government Printing office style manual from 1984.
> [...]
>
> Can anyone shed further light on this charac
At 18:13 -0700 2003-06-06, Asmus Freytag wrote:
I was hoping to find someone who had additional evidence for this character.
I might but I am travelling.
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At 01:34 AM 6/7/03 +0200, Philippe Verdy wrote:
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From: "Asmus Freytag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Can anyone shed further light on this character? I assume this is a lower
> case form, does anyone care to confirm that?
Isn't your "per" symbol it similar to the form variant of
I keep coming across a letterlike symbol based on the letter p. In going
through my collections, I found it listed in a table of symbols in an
excerpt from the US Government Printing office style manual from
1984.
That symbol is named 'per' and looks like
To me, the symbol looks like something
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