19-06-2018, 03:24 PM
(19-06-2018, 09:34 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(19-06-2018, 08:40 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Don, the "is" abbreviation at the end of regis (the loop with the stem) can be added to anything, to lowercase, to an ascender, to uppercase. It doesn't matter.
Yes, I know, but actual wild 100% accurate 3 and a half storey high VMS gallows characters seem to be a bit thin on the ground so far. If you have one, trot it out and this slightly recalcitrant skeptic is happy to be convinced.
Many examples of litterae elongatae have been posted to the thread and "Item" which is the "is" abbreviation added to capital-I and t have also been posted numerous times.
Quote:My point remains though, why put a capital in the middle of a word, as happens throughout the VMS?
- We don't know if it's the middle of a word; we only know that they occur within tokens.
- Lowercase letters are not always short. In western languages, the letters b, l, h, d, f, s, and others, all have ascenders and they are not considered capital letters.
- Why assume the gallows are capital letters? They are glyphs, or possibly combinations of glyphs. They aren't even necessarily letters—they might be numbers.


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