On 4 Jan 2016, at 08:15, Jörg Knappen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is a report of a rather strange beast occurring in historical math > printing (work of C. F. Gauß) in thw 19th century: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/284483/how-do-i-typeset-this-symbol-possibly-astronomical
The image there is clearly a digit 7. > images are here: > > http://www.archive.org/stream/abhandlungenmet00gausrich#page/n129/mode/2up This will not load for me. > http://i.stack.imgur.com/57fN3.png Again, this is a digit 7. From a different font than the other 7’s set there. > It looks like a big digit "7" or like a turned letter "L". In the accepted > answer it was identified with the Tironian note et; an identification > I'd dispute because the Tironian note Et is usually smaller in size than a > capital latin letter. It is not a Tironian et. The Tironian Et typically has a descender and goes to x-height. Also the horizonal stroke would never be written like that 7, and indeed the angle (if less than 90°) of the descender wouldn’t be so small. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
