Re: That character that looks like a 4

["Dana F. Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Diane,
     It may be that the "4" evolved and appeared out of necessity,
similar to the + - = in mathematics. Another possibility is that it
really did not apply to the text where it does not appear. While there
may be exceptions, notice also that o follows the 4, which reminds me of
the qu combination of letters in English.

Regards,
Dana Scott

"diane.cousteau" wrote:

> Hello everyone!                    As I was looking over some pages of
> text, I was surprised to notice that the "4" character frequently
> found at the beginning of words throughout the VMS only begins to
> appear on folio 2r...right after that it is found several times in
> every paragraph....what kind of letter could be used this way?
> Moreover, could this mean there was a change in key after folio 2r?
> What character was previously used instead of 4?  Or maybe that the 4
> character signals a particular class of word which is not used before
> folio 2r?                         Who knows? Any ideas?