At 18:25 09-11-03 +0100, Rolf F. Rehe wrote:
>>when Gutenberg typeset his Bible, he used types of various widhts in
>>order to achive right-justification. they were of the same height, but
>>their widths varied, so that when he set a line, he experimented with
>>types of various widths until the line had the right lengths.
>
>They were/are called ligatures, he had over a hundred of them. He also
>used letters that indicated contractions, such as a 'n' with a horizontal
>bar over it.
>Rolf F. Rehe

I think that the only ones to survive are the ampersand & the commercial at.

David ib

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