Re: VMs: Re: Transcription Ramble

["GC" <gc-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hate to intrude, but now that I get a sense of what you mean by "split
gallows", i.e., those whose legs extend past several words for one reason or
another, I thought I'd mention that this is also a feature found in medieval
and renaissance manuscripts in Latin or other known European languages.
They are embellishments, flourishes, and the anchor for the character is
always to the left, which is logical, since this is usually the first
character on the page.  It's good to note their existence and placement, but
once again I don't see any reason to go beyond the "known" to explain them.
If anything immediately useful is to be derived from their usage, it might
be that they add to the notion that the manuscript is western European.
Just an observation.

GC





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Grant" <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: Re: Transcription Ramble


> illumin8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >I've considered decorative flourish but I do not believe that "it does
> >not matter" or "does not cause any misreading at all". If just for show
> >then what you must deduce is that the right half of gallows is
> >superfluous. I would then expect the right half to come down between
> >words, not in the middle of a word, but then some drawings split text
> >too.
> >
>
> Perhaps the split gallows representsd two instances of the entire
> character (i.e. one at the position of each leg), sort of like crossing
> two "t"'s with the same crossbar in hardwritten English.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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