I think it is obvious that he was referring to the long s, but I'll pass your comment on to him.
Rob 2008/12/12 dc <[1][email protected]> Rob MacKillop ecrit: David Hill has completed his paraphrases to Dowland's The First Booke of Songs - which I am delighted to say is now downloadable from the John Dowland website: Thanks for this. I'm quite surprised by the very first sentence: "The use of 'f' for 's' has been replaced without comment" The f isn't used for s. These are two different letters, the f and the so-called "long s", despite their ressemblance. See [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s The long 's' is subject to confusion with the lower case or minuscule 'f', sometimes even having an 'f'-like nub at its middle, but on the left side only, in various kinds of Roman typeface and in blackletter. There was no nub in its italic typeform, which gave the stroke a descender curling to the leftnot possible with the other typeforms mentioned without kerning. Dennis To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
