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Re: Looking for good scan of Austin Specimen
First experiments to use wood or reed for wrapping paper were by the German Johann Georg von Langen 1753. After 1767 paper manufacturers in Germany experimented with hemp, cotton and willow, because…1 -
Re: Angled quotesingle and quotedbl
I built my own virtual keyboard on Mac using Ukulele for writing German Fraktur. The special characters are on plane shift+ctrl+alt. The German quotes in Fraktur are of shape low-9 (begin) and high-6…2 -
Re: Do you have the most obscure of Czech words.
Out of 2,200 languages, 50,000 most frequent words per language, this are the findings in my collection: $ grep -R ľk . | grep 'words\.txt' ./sk/sk-words.txt:niekoľko 448 ./sk/sk-words.txt:veľké 293 …2 -
Re: Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
Autotracing is just a way to reconstruct fonts. Reconstruction of historic books needs reconstruction of the original fonts. Existing reconstructions of the same typefaces are not usable, because the…1 -
Re: Reason for this kind of double quotation marks
The reason for the shape of German quotes is very simple. In early times they had no quotes. You will not find them in specimen, type casting lists or matrix layouts. But you find them printed in boo…2
