Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Otto Stolz
Hello, le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on those old printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic subjects... Am 2013-01-09 um 18:16 schrieb Frédéric Grosshans: Actually, the preceding tool

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 1/10/2013 2:08 AM, Otto Stolz wrote: Hello, le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on those old printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic subjects... Am 2013-01-09 um 18:16 schrieb Frédéric

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 10/01/2013 11:08, Otto Stolz a écrit : Hello, le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on those old printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic subjects... Am 2013-01-09 um 18:16 schrieb Frédéric

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 10/01/2013 00:31, Asmus Freytag a écrit : Would you be able to provide a more complete copy of the article in question. It would allow those of us with the proper background to look for any other potential documents using the character in

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-10 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 1/10/2013 5:21 AM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le 10/01/2013 11:08, Otto Stolz a écrit : Hello, le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on those old printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic

help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Elbrecht
Hi - any help with an unknown character - very appreciated: elbrecht.com/SW.png [400KB] On title of a 1932/33 book on the Principle of Contradiction - a mathematical/logical character in use for book printing??? Thanks Elbrecht # # # ›The fact that you know,

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-01-11 0:28, Elbrecht wrote: any help with an unknown character - very appreciated: elbrecht.com/SW.png [400KB] You probably tried to attach an image, but it was not sent or it was stripped off by the mailing list software. Please upload the image in some

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Elbrecht sirfo...@mac.com wrote: Hi - any help with an unknown character - very appreciated: elbrecht.com/SW.png [400KB] On title of a 1932/33 book on the Principle of Contradiction - a mathematical/logical character in use for

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Elbrecht
Jucca - the URL is: www.elbrecht.com/SW.png problem is, there isn't any context in the book itself - just an erractic character on the hardcover: www.elbrecht.com/PC.png HE # # # On Jan 10,

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Everson
On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:04, Elbrecht sirfo...@mac.com wrote: problem is, there isn't any context in the book itself - just an erractic character on the hardcover: www.elbrecht.com/PC.png Randomly reversed long s? Michael Everson *

RE: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Doug Ewell
In that case, it's just a nonce doodle, and there's no demonstrated need to encode it. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­ Original Message Subject: Re: help with an unknown character From: Elbrecht sirfo...@mac.com Date: Thu, January 10, 2013

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-01-11 1:04, Elbrecht wrote: the URL is: www.elbrecht.com/SW.png Well, the *URL* is http://www.elbrecht.com/SW.png or http://elbrecht.com/SW.png (I really thought it was just a local filename when I saw your first email.) problem

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Gerrit Ansmann
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:17:09 +0100, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote: Randomly reversed long s? Hmm, this would not fit the sloped serif. Rather a flipped, dotless j. Wildly guessing, I would say, that whoever made the cover wanted it to reflect “Widerspruch” (contradiction) or

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Everson
On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:57, Gerrit Ansmann gansm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:17:09 +0100, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote: Randomly reversed long s? Hmm, this would not fit the sloped serif. Rather a flipped, dotless j. Well, yes, though dot less j isn't very

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Plantema
Op vrijdag 11 januari 2013 00:33 schreef Jukka K. Korpela: On title of a 1932/33 book on the Principle of Contradiction - a mathematical/logical character in use for book printing??? … so the real title is different, and we still don’t know the author. Principle of contradiction is a

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 Thread Asmus Freytag
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4791646751032057pid=1.7w=176h=155c=7rs=1 ?? Relation? Visual or otherwise. Pun? (Note the similarity :widder: :wider:) Just thinking out loud. A./