Asmus Freytag wrote: > > I keep coming across a letterlike symbol based on the letter p. In going > through my collections, I found it listed in a table of symbols in an > excerpt from the US Government Printing office style manual from 1984. > [...] > > Can anyone shed further light on this character? I assume this is a lower > case form, does anyone care to confirm that?
There's a list of "the ordinary fount of 275 characters" which has "Commercial Signs" in a row: @ [per] lb / � $ % + - � � = in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, p. 190, taken from a 1916 book. There it's definitely upper case, in the sense that it extends from the top of the l and b to below the baseline. > I recently found anther symbol based on the letter p, this time, > definitely a lower case letter. It's used with subscripted digits to > denote papyri in at least one numbering scheme. > [...] > > Can anyone shed more light on this second symbol? Are there other sources > that use just that form? Are there sources that seem to number papyri with > the same notation (p plus digits) but use typographically different styles? See http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgreek/SILApparatusFonts.html . Biblical textual critics have run out of letters after A-Z. -- Alistair Vining
