> On Mar 27, 2017, at 9:56 AM, John H. Jenkins <jenk...@apple.com> wrote: > > >> On Mar 27, 2017, at 2:04 AM, James Kass <jameskass...@gmail.com >> <mailto:jameskass...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>> >>> If we have any historic metal types, are there >>> examples where a font contains both ligature >>> variants? >> >> Apparently not. >> >> John H. Jenkins mentioned early in this thread that these ligatures >> weren't used in printed materials and were not part of the official >> Deseret set. They were only used in manuscript. >> > > This is correct. Neither of the nineteenth century metal types included the > letters in question. Nor were they included in any electronic fonts that I'm > aware of before they were included in Unicode. >
This should teach me to double-check before posting. Apparently, the earlier typeface *did* include all forty letters; it just didn't use these two. I don't know what glyphs were used.
