On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:07 AM Martin J. Dürst <due...@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> And while we currently have no evidence that Deseret had developed a > typographic tradition where some type styles would use one set of > ligatures, and other styles would use another set, it wouldn't be > possible to reject this possibility without actually trying to find > evidence one way or another. > Deseret didn't really develop a typographic tradition at all. To quote Wikipedia: At least four books were published in the new alphabet, all transcribed by Orson Pratt and all using the Russell's House font: The First Deseret Alphabet Reader (1868), The Second Deseret Alphabet Reader (1868), The Book of Mormon (1869), and a Book of Mormon excerpt called First Nephi–Omni (1869). There's also a couple years where the Deseret News printed a short piece in the Deseret alphabet in every issue, but in any case, these new glyphs never had a metal type made for them and never saw print until modern times.
