John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> wrote: > If I find your Suetterlin font unreadable, however, and switch to an > Antiqua font to read your German, I expect to find the text littered > with diaereses, not macrons, although the Suetterlin umlaut-mark looks > pretty much like a macron.
Actually, the Sütterlin umlaut-mark is a small italicized "e," which is very similar to an "n." What it really ends up looking like, from a distance, is a double acute. (John's point is still perfectly valid, of course.) Sütterlin does use a macron over "m" and "n" to indicate that the letter should be doubled, and it uses a breve over "u" to differentiate it from the otherwise identical "n." -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
