On 27 Mar 2017, at 16:56, John H. Jenkins <jenk...@apple.com> wrote: >> John H. Jenkins mentioned early in this thread that these ligatures weren't >> used in printed materials and were not part of the official Deseret set. >> They were only used in manuscript. > > This is correct. Neither of the nineteenth century metal types included the > letters in question. Nor were they included in any electronic fonts that I'm > aware of before they were included in Unicode.
The 1857 St Louis punches definitely included both the 1855 EW 𐐧 and the 1859 OI <𐐃𐐆>. Ken Beesley shows them in smoke proofs in his 2004 paper on Metafont. Michael Everson
