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Only one dagger exists in the font, but the 1611 KJV contained many different typographical daggers #9
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My cross comes from "cross w J.png". To me it looks correct. Please provide images to prove otherwise. I cannot work with verses alone, sorry. |
Do you no longer possess the facsimile? |
I donated it, see #8 (comment) |
Oh! Well, that certainly changes things. |
@artistofmind If I send you an FTP account via email, would you mind uploading the Furness scans to it? I have several servers under my control, no need to use a free service. :-) |
And of course thank you for the smaller images you sent via e-mail already. I can see there are many kinds of crosses, not only the one that I chose to include as |
I have only found two different sizes of cross in the body text (the Garamond in the margins is another matter): the full-height and the half-height. All are aligned with the tops of ascenders (e.g. "h"), and all are the same weight, which is quite thin. |
I see what you mean. It's late here and I have errands tomorrow, but tomorrow afternoon I'll try to add some thinner daggers/crosses into the font. :-) Hopefully by then you'll have uploaded to the FTP server I sent you. |
This should be fixed in sfnt revision 3.2. I'll close the issue when it's released |
I've left this open because I'm still unsure as to how many daggers there are...sometimes they seem placed up high, other times low. I'm as yet unsure which dagger should be default and which alternate. |
Can you give me an example of a low one? (P. / bk. / ch. / vs. №?) I have yet to find a single non-superscript cross, and I’ve cropped hundreds. As I said before, I’ve only found the two types: a normal one (which should definitely be default) and a half-height version of the same. But both are vertically aligned with the tops of ascenders, and both are as thin as anything gets on that printing press. Moreover, if there are outliers, they are almost certainly in the margins, not the body text. And as both the font & line spacing are different in the margins, that’s neither particularly surprising nor necessarily relevant. In my crops, I have focussed on crosses in the body; and these seem remarkably consistent in size, shape, weight & position. |
The cross symbol has a couple issues:
We might also consider adding a second cross character (U+271D rather than U+2020). This one should be approx. half the height. (Cf. Gen. 13:8.)
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