On 2012-06-08, David Starner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Denis Jacquerye <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are you sure it's not the opposite? Dorsey had a typewriter that >> didn't have his turned letters, so he used crossed lines below to >> indicate what letters should be turned when printed. > > I don't have a source to refer to, but two things make me find my > memory more likely here. One, this work was done in 1881 and there > were no field-portable typewriters then; IIRC, typewriters as a whole > were rare and he probably sent in his work handwritten.
Dorsey's notes for his Omaha-Ponca dictionary are available online at http://omahalanguage.unl.edu/dictionary/index.html They are typed; and the turned letters are notated with a (hand-written) cross below them, as Denis said. There are also some handwritten annotations using the same convention. I don't know when this was done, but at least by then he seems to have been using the same notation in manuscript as in typescript. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
