Re: Accents

> Date:         Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:45:22 -0000
> From: jogloran <exponent@...>
>
> <<
> My theory is that this use of the # sign is derived from the L B BAR
> SYMBOL at U-2114, or a script version of it. Older Danish cookbooks
> (and my grandmother's handwritten recipes) use a symbol for a pound
> that looks like a script lowercase u with the right tail going back
> across the legs --- that would be an intermediate stage.
> >>
>
> Interesting theory, but where would the other bar come from?
> Incidentally, the symbol that I think you're describing is the
> ligature {is} in my conscript.
The lower horizontal stroke is the connection between the script
(lower case) l and b, the upper one is the bar. (The vertical strokes
are the stems of the l and the b, of course).

In the Danish version, the drawing direction would be: left stem,
connection, right stem, bowl of the b, upper bar (drawn right to
left).

For the US version, try drawing two (connected) longhand l's and put a
bar over the upper stems. I'm sure you'll see what I mean. (This is
perhaps more likely to develop if the bar was a separate stroke, and
the bowl of the b just got lost).

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)