> Check out > <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Calligraphy.malmesbury.bible.arp.jpg>, > first letter in the next to last line. "cognationum" starts with a "c". > You'll see where the confusion about blackletter "c" being either r or > gamma arises.
the line above that has a better exemplar, at the text "ac domos" I have no trouble 'seeing' that c as a c; this particular form of blackletter is not as difficult as some others. Besides, the issue is courthand, not blackletter. > The Latin script does not have "j", "u" or "w" IIRC. Which latin? It varies over time. During the periods we are concerned with it had all those forms and more, but was developing the modern semantic we associate with each of what used to be variant forms. Note that there used to be variant forms for certain letters depending on where they occurred in a word - short s and tall s for example. -- Dana Emery _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
