RE: Off topic: type

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

Or in Spanish, etc., whose superscript ordinals are 170 and 186 in the HP
Latin 1 character set.

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Patricia M Godfrey [SMTP:pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, January 31, 2003 2:37 PM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Off topic: type
>
. . .

> On a slightly similar tack, a couple of days ago, Leslie wrote:
> "an entire generation has now grown up assuming that one should
> superscript the `st' in 21st century--something that previously had not
> been seen since the end of calligraphy." Well, perhaps not in English.
> But French, as Leslie knows as well as, or better than, I do, has been
> using superscript for ordinal indicators since at least 1960.
>
. . .

> Patricia