[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

There is another double-legged and weird 'f' (or 'p'?) on the same page, in the lower right (not that I can say what this might mean)

I can't explain it either, except note that this f is a Frankenstein monster of retracings, and it crosses or touches glyphs on the line above and on the line below.  Who knows what it was originally.

By the way, there is another interesting case in that same area.

Note that there is a light brown crescent shape just to the SW of that glyph.  That turns out to be an offset print from a dark blue flower on page f46v. That particular blue paint seems to have a component that collects along the edges of the painted area and then leaves offset traces on the facing page. 

Just inside that crescent there is an o that crosses the loop of the t on the line below.  That o is retraced (probably Rt2) and happens to match in part the outline of that flower offset. 

So my guess is that the o was not there originally, but the Rt2  Retracer mistook the flower offset for text and "restored" a non-existent o on that spot...

All the best, --jorge