At 16:02 -0500 2001-12-01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 1.) Swedish ampersand (see "&.bmp"). It's an "o" (for "och", i.e. "and") >> with a line below. In handwritten text it is almost always used instead of >> &, in machine-written text I don't think I've ever seen it. > >This might be a character in its own right, as different from the ampersand >as U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET. Or it might be simply a glyph variant of the >ampersand. If you have never seen o-underbar in machine-written text, I >doubt that this will help your cause much. You might try U+006F U+0332, >though this will probably not give you the vertical spacing you expect.
It is certainly not a glyph variant of an ampersand. An ampersand is a ligature of e and t. This is certainly an abbreviation of och. That both mean "and" is NOT a reason for unifying different signs. Having said that, it seems to me that U+00B0 would represent Stefan's character easily enough. >(As a side note, this "o-underbar" form reminds me of the "c-underbar" which >is sometimes used in handwritten English to mean "with." Does anyone know >the origin of this symbol? Is it possibly derived from the Latin word cum, >meaning "with"? Does it have any claim to being a character in its own >right?) I've never seen this in handwritten English. Cappelli's Dizionario di Abbreviature latine ed italiane shows several abbreviations for cum, none of which are a c with underbar. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
