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> ... you wouldn't know a nicer way to reproduce the 7 as
> ond abbreviation in Old English texts, by any chance? I am normally
> using the number, but seeing these new letters, I wonder what might be
> out there.
Just tooling (or fooling) around, I see that though the Tironian "et"
might be regarded as simply a variant form of ampersand, in fact
unicode awards it with a slot of its own (U+204A). Unfortunately,
most unicode fonts do not include it. One that does, and that you
might want to install in any case, is Peter Baker's "Junicode" font,
designed originally with Anglo-Saxonists in mind. You can download
the font from
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/junicode.html
(after downloading it to a temp folder, and unzipping it to somwhere
convenient, copy the actual font files (*.ttf) to your /Windows/fonts
directory. In WinXP, at least, this should be enough to install them.
Other systems may require more steps.)
Another choice might be a font designed to print modern Irish gaelic,
for which the Tironian et is the normal ampersand. Some of these
are unicode fonts, some are not; some assign the Tironian symbol
the normal slot for ampersand, and some place it in the U+204A slot.
I haven't experimented with these, but there seem to be a number
of fonts to experiment with, even free ones (see e.g.:)
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/mearchlar/fonts.htm#Free
I just now installed Junicode and tried the tironian et in a
Word document. Looks fine (though it is very much the OE, not
the later ME form of the symbol). Haven't tried going the Irish
route.
I'm sure there are other solutions, but these should do to start.
pfs
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By the way, if you do not already have it, I suggest downloading
the official text file of unicode names and code points to your local
machine. Makes it very quick to find the appropriate character
(assuming you can name it as they do!) simply by searching the
file. Found here: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt
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