Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

[Asmus Freytag (t)]

On 1/4/2016 7:49 AM, Michael Everson wrote: Excellent! Looks like a candidate character for encoding. I’m sure I have some examples of good font designs for the old character in one of my books. Admitting that a Greek letter inherently makes more sense than an "et" as a variable name, I would still need to understand why "pi" would make a sensible mnemonic choice for the variable in Gauss' treatise, before being confident that we've made the correct identification. The more so, as the use of non-cursive pi for "perihelion" in the same work is clearly mnemonic. A./ On 4 Jan 2016, at 15:38, Raymond Mercier <raym...@almanach.co.uk> wrote: The sign described as like 7 is surely a cursive form of π. The form used by Gauss (Disquisitio de elementis ellipticis Palladis) is much the same as that shown in manuals of Greek Palaeography as a cursive π. This is given by E.P. Thompson in two works, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, Oxford, 1912, p.83, and A Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography, Chicago, 1975, p. 95. Raymond Mercier <Pi_Abbrev.jpg><GaussPallas_21.jpg> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/