18-11-2016, 09:30 AM
I just had a thought while looking at your examples, Wladimir.
There are a couple of places in the VMS where this occurs... (the 4o with the Latin overline abbreviation/apostrophe shown bottom-right for 90r1):
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And then I was thinking how odd 115r and 80r look (the 4o with the double line).
If I had seen only 115r, I would be tempted to dismiss it as a mistake or stray penstroke, but 80r looks more deliberate and then it occurred to me, does it mean something different from the overline? or is it a way of incorporating the overline into the character to make it less obvious that it's an overline?
There are a couple of places in the VMS where this occurs... (the 4o with the Latin overline abbreviation/apostrophe shown bottom-right for 90r1):
And then I was thinking how odd 115r and 80r look (the 4o with the double line).
If I had seen only 115r, I would be tempted to dismiss it as a mistake or stray penstroke, but 80r looks more deliberate and then it occurred to me, does it mean something different from the overline? or is it a way of incorporating the overline into the character to make it less obvious that it's an overline?