On Sunday, July 13, 2003 10:21 PM, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Everson scripsit: > > > > A good choice if you don't slash your DIGIT SEVENs and can make > > > your DIGIT ONEs sufficiently distinct. > > > > Eh? I *do* slash my DIGITs SEVEN and I use a single vertical stroke > > from my DIGITs ONE. The TIRONIAN SIGN ET as used in Ireland has no > > horizontal stroke. > > I should have said "do slash your DIGIT SEVENs". So the glyph in the > Unicode 3.0 book is not typical of Irish practice? It seems to have a > horizontal stroke all right. In French too: children at school learn to use an horizontal stroke when drawing a digit seven, and the oblique stroke is often curved to become vertical at its central base (not placed at the left corner, and uses a small loop to connect to the top horizontal stroke. I have always used a medial horizontal stroke on my sevens, often starting it the top left corner with a tiny loop too to create a vertical serif... -- Philippe. Spams non tol�r�s: tout message non sollicit� sera rapport� � vos fournisseurs de services Internet.
