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From: sean@castle.ed.ac.uk (S Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: The use of long s in modern English typesetting
Message-ID: <11368@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Jun 91 12:45:35 GMT
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graham@june.cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes:

>I can't pretend to be authoratative, but... The long-s should be used when
>the letter s occurs within a word, except when two or more s's appear
>in a row, such as asset. In this case, the first s should be a long s,
>and the second a short s. Incidentally, this is the origin of the
>German eszet.

This is not quite true; the eszet is a ligature of a long s and a z,
which you can see if you open any book set in a `German' font.  In roman
fonts it has been distorted so much that it is difficult to see what
happened. 

Sean

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