<div dir="ltr"><div>Does anyone know why the DCRM transcription rules about early modern letterforms treat a lowercase "s" different from a lowercase "i"? <br><br>An early modern "s" at the front or in the middle of a word has a different shape than an "s" at the end of the word, but it's still an "s" and we transcribe it as an "s" (despite long-s being a unicode character).<br><br>An early modern "i" at the front or in the middle of a word has a different shape than an "i" at the end of the word, but we transcribe them <i>differently</i>, using the letter "j" for a terminal "i" (even though it's not a "j", it's a j-shaped "i").</div><div><br></div><div>It struck me particularly when looking at the date on one of Hogenberg's "Geschichtsblätter" (<a href="https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3bm5h6">https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3bm5h6</a>), which I've attached here. (It's the date of the event depicted in the engraving, not the imprint, so it's not as weird as it looks).</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_kncaom300" alt="image.png" width="549" height="441"><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Erin.</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">______________________<br></span></a><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Erin Blake, Ph.D. | Senior Cataloger | Folger
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