Off topic: type (ME letter "Yogh")

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

Preliminary report (because I haven't had time for more thorough
investigation; the labeling machine at the office broke down and we had
to affix some 1,000 mailing labels by hand yesterday and another 900
today): I called up CHARSET in XyWin, put it into snaking columns to save
paper, loaded Plantin, and printed a few pages (those with more of the
letter, as opposed to box-drawing, characters). Lowercase yogh turned up
at 344 (which CHARSET IDs as cap S caron. Most of the rest matched their
assigned values, with a few interesting variants: 157 (Yen sign) is a
sort of half-cedilla; 159 (florin sign), another medieval letter that I
cannot id off the top of my head right now; 171 (one-quarter) is the same
character uppercase. I'll have to print out the whole megillah, I
suppose, and give it a careful read. But how wonderful of XyW to tell us
what its characters are! Unlike other word processors, which give you a
whole table full of "things"--some of which look exactly alike (e.g.
Cyrillic cap V and roman cap B)--with no clue to their provenance.
Patricia