I'm sorry if I did offend anyone, this was not my intension. As you surely noticed, English isn't my native tongue, which is a potential source of misunderstandings for which I apologize.
In the German type historian community, Brekle's work, which explains that the Fraktur-Eszett's origins are a ligature of s and z as well as medieval pseudoligatures, is considered to be the current state of research. The construction of the Antiqua-Eszett as a ligature of s and z is in my eyes obvious, because the three-like form of the z was usual in Germany at that time and was doubtlessly recognized by everyone as a z, as I tried to make clear by showing examples. Additionally, we have the original source saying it's made of an s and z. For modern, non-German eyes the form is of course kind of unusual, which could lead to misinterpretation. However, I didn't yet hear from anyone questioning the original Sulzbacher form to be made of s and z. So if you know any sources saying this, I would be very eager to read them. Besides the debate about the construction of Poppelbaum's original design, it's clear that many type designers in the last years made use of a form really consisting of a long and short s (as it's the case in the present Ubuntu font, too). Because of that, we (Germans) got used to it long ago, so this form is of course acceptable, too. Again: I hope I didn't pique anyone, I like your work at Dalton Maag, and I'm looking forward to see your solutions for the uppercase Eszett! Joshua -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
