>R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>At one time in English (and other national forms of the Roman
>alphabet) handwriting and printing there were different symbols for
>final & non-final lower-case S (the non-final ones looking very
>similar to _f_ in print), but that practice has long been
>abandoned....
I remember, when learning cursive decades ago, that the final 't' had
a different form than the initial/medial 't.' It didn't have to be
crossed. On those extremely rare occasions when I write in cursive
nowadays, I still use that form.
Charlie