Re: logos, symbols, and ligatures

> > What seems silly to me is devising rules for ligation based on a
> > particular style of writing and then insisting that those rules
> > also apply for all other styles of writing of a given language.
>
> Well, that's what those "silly" Germans have done. [...]
>
> Sometimes, the differences are in your face (French spacing around
> punctuation) sometimes they are subtle (angle of accents
> French/Polish, ligation in German/Dutch etc.).  But they are real
> and they exist.

Amen.


    Werner