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To: "Cyrillic TeX Users Group" <CyrTeX-ru@vsu.ru>
Subject: Re: shape of the yat
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:48:49 +0400
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On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Ruprecht von Waldenfels wrote:
>
> One problem remains, however: the strange shape of the yat, with a
> small hachek on top of it. Is there any way to remedy this?

That's a correct shape for a Cyrillic ascender, which BTW
was much more common in pre-1917 printing than Latin-styled
ascenders with a serif at the left side. The lowercase Cyrillic
"f" also often has its ascender and descender designed in this
style.

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Alexej Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru>

Moscow State University
Historical Faculty