Gerd Schumacher wrote: > The long s [...] has been abandoned from the Roman alphabet in Germany > in the mid of the 19th century.
You mean the 20th century, don't you?
I have a facsimile reprint of the 1914 issue of "Zupfgeigenhansel" (a renowned song-book), which is set in Roman type ("Antiqua", in German) and uses the long-S consistently, according to German orthographic rules.
I believe it's an exception. I have a German mineralogical dictionary from 1849 that is in Roman type and doesn't use the long-S. The mathematical books from the late 1800s and early 1900s that I've looked at all consistenly in Roman type without the long-S. The Library of Congress has a German biography of the Wright brothers written in the 1909 that is in Roman type and doesn't use the long-S.
I'm pretty sure the long-s was lost from Roman type in the usual case by the late 1800s.
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