David Starner schreef: > Criss-cross-lain. <i>s.</i> The alphabet; so called in consequence > of its being formerly preceded in the <i>horn-book</i> by a ✠ to > remind us of the cross of Christ; hence the term. <i>Christ-Cross- > line</i> came at last to mean nothing more than the alphabet. > > where the cross looks like the attached picture. Is U+2720 (Maltese > Cross) the right character for this, and is there a better one in > Unicode?
The picture you show does indeed look like a maltese cross. However, as is shown in the pictures of actual horn-books at http://www.iupui.edu/~engwft/hornbook.html, some had latin crosses (U+271D). Pim Blokland
