I'm not sure what you're arguing here. The 1903 Sulzbacher Form, effectively a thorough romanization of ß, *is* intended to be derived from a long-s+short-s ligature.
It's Fraktur forms which were almost invariably long-s+z or long-s+ezh forms. It's on *this* point that Tschichold was flatly wrong - attempting to retrofit long-s+short-s into a Fraktur structure - but Fraktur is not the origin of the modern character. The image you post of the Sulzbacher Form is very clearly a long-s short-s ligature - absolutely no sign of a z or ezh, cursive or otherwise. Today we do find glorious diversity in the design of ß, but the Sulzbacher Form is the most common. If we were discussing the design of a Fraktur face, we would be discussing long-s+ezh designs, but as we're not, a Sulzbacher Form ß is the right choice for the Ubuntu font. Now, back to the capital... Dave -- Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
