On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 05:19, William_J_G Overington > Long s was used with ordinary Roman type in England for English text in at > least part of the 17th and 18th centuries.
More on that by babelstone: http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html (Sorry for the duplicate email William, my mistake.) -- Leonardo Boiko