Re: Is long s a presentation form?

[Michael Everson]

I like to think of the long s as similar to the final sigma. Nobody thinks that final sigma should be a presentation form of sigma.

Nobody really uses long s in modern Roman typography, and it's a lot more convenient to have this as a separate character for the nonce-uses that it has than to expect font designers round the world to add special shaping tables to all their fonts just for this critter.
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