Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2010 um 18:34 schrieb Janusz S. Bień: JSB> Would you be so kind to give an example of a real-life application JSB> when it is really needed?
Fraktur was in widespread use in Germany until 1941 (when the Nazis forbade it due to a perceived similarity to the Hebrew script) and in the German-speaking parts fo Switzerland until 1946. It is still used by hobbyists, revival activists, and as an "old-fashioned" style. Thus, there are texts displayable in Fraktur (i.e. containing long s). When you want to display these (modern) texts in Roman (Antiqua), you usually do not want to see the long s. If then you devise a variation sequence coming into effect which devises the long s to be displayed like a round s in when using Roman/Antiqua script variant implicitly by a higher-level protocol, you can obtain this without recoding. (The "implicit application" was somewhat hidden in my first draft, it is described more concise in my final version. However, in that version I have dropped the s variants; maybe they will appear in a later separate proposal.) JSB> BTW, is "round s" in the meaning used in your proposal an official or JSB> widespread term? It is a literally translation of German "Rund-S" which means the common "s" form in opposition to a "Lang-S" (long s). - Karl Pentzlin
