Surely this is correct. I have always accepted the old style 's' was
identical to lowercase ' f ', except the cross bar only extended to
the left, ie half that of the lowercase ' f '.
Regards
John
On 23 May 2006, at 14:28, Frank Clement-Lorford wrote:
> You are not alone, when I tried it all I got was an upside down ſ
> as you can see
>
> Regards
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar
> Wilde 1854-1900
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> Subject: Re: Identifying a font with a 'long s'
>
> That did not work for me at all, nothing happened it simply stayed
> highlighted. does it come up actually as a long 's' or just as an
> italic 'f' as happens if you simply hold down ALT and then on the
> numeric
> keypad 159 ƒ This is not really a long 's' it is more like the
> forte
> sign in music. But we have a LOT of letters which use the long
> 's' and we
> have not found anything that works as yet.
> We also tried that website which was recommended, and we could not
> find
> the long 's' on it anywhere, so we must have missed something
>
> Eunice and Ron
>
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