(10-06-2018, 10:41 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Are those "gallows" examples of the -ris, -tis... abbreviation?
I don't know what the VMS designer intended, but the "-is" abbreviation can be added to both upper- and lowercase characters. It can be added to pretty much anything. Most of the time it means "-is", sometimes it means "-em" or "-tem" as in "Item".
I have also collected samples of "is" written horizontally rather than vertically and it is the same abbreviation, quite clearly. There's a great deal of latitude in how it is written and yet, because it is used in context, it will always be understood.
In the VMS we have no within-text context, that's why it's hard to determine what might be a character and what might be a combination of shapes but I am leaning toward the "-is" shape maybe being independent of the other shapes because it has been added to several different VMS glyphs and sometimes there is a little gap.