Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 154.
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[1] From: Andrew Hawke <ach@aber.ac.uk> (33)
Subject: Re: 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font?
[2] From: tsherman <tsherman@mtsu.edu> (18)
Subject: RE: 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font?
[3] From: Han Baltussen
<han.baltussen@kcl.ac.uk> (13)
Subject: Re: correction 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font?
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:26:24 +0100
From: Andrew Hawke <ach@aber.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font?
There is an excellent digital typography house in Vancouver run by John
Hudson which offers a number of fonts for scholars of a very high standard,
including Latin abbreviation marks. See http://www.tiro.com/
See in particular their 1530 Garamond Archaics, 'a set of medieval latin
contractions as well as scholastic latin vowel indicators':
http://www.tiro.com/gara_arc.html
The full set can be seen at:
http://www.tiro.com/arcset.gif
I believe that they can also undertake the creation of additional
characters if required. These are professional commercial fonts with a
commensurate price tag: but well worth the expense if you need to set many
of these characters.
Incidentally, they also have very good support for most Roman-based writing
systems, which is how I first came across the company.
Andrew Hawke
At 10:57 07/08/00 +0100, Charles Faulhaber wrote:
> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 10:54:08 +0100
> From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
> >
>I am looking for a font that has the standard abbreviations used in
>medieval writing systems that use the Latin alphabet, e.g., p with a bar
>through the tail, all letters of the alphabet with a superimposed
>abbreviation bar, the Tironian note, -ur, -us, and -rum signs, etc.
>
>These are the sorts of things that one used to see in the old-fashinoned
>catalogues of incunabula that attempted to offer type facsimiles.
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:28:00 +0100
From: tsherman <tsherman@mtsu.edu>
Subject: RE: 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font?
Try contacting Gary Stringer or Syd Connor at the University of Southern
Mississippi. WE use those symbols in our transcriptions of texts for the Donne
Variorum. Write me privately for their email addresses, or go to the Donne
Variorum Website for contact information. The site address is:
http://donnevariorum.libarts.usm.edu/
Yours,
Ted Sherman
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I do not have the immediate answer, but I know of a nifty database which incorporates all medieval abbreviations. It's called *Abbreviationes* and it was made by Dr Olaf Pluta who is at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. If they are inthere there must be a way to use them electronically.
For info on the software see http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/projects/abbrev.htm
I suspect that Pluta knows the answer (pluta@phil.kun.nl)
HB
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