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Insular G, a shape of the Latin letter G once used in Ireland and Great Britain Insular R. In digital typography, the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI) is a project which aims to coordinate the encoding and display of special characters in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet or in runes, [1] which are not otherwise encoded as part of Unicode.
Outside of mathematics, the character set has seen some limited decorative use, but it lacks punctuation and other characters necessary for running text, and the Unicode standard for setting non-mathematical material in blackletter is to use ordinary Latin code points with a dedicated blackletter font. Mathematical Fraktur:
The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th ...
MUFI and Mufi may refer to: . Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, a project which aims to coordinate the encoding and display of special characters in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet, which are not encoded as part of Unicode
Sütterlinschrift (German pronunciation: [ˈzʏtɐliːnˌʃʁɪft], "Sütterlin script") is the last widely used form of Kurrent, the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces.
Lombardic capitals is the name given to a type of decorative uppercase letter used in inscriptions and, typically, at the start of a section of text in medieval manuscripts. [1] They are characterized by their rounded forms with thick, curved stems. Paul Shaw describes the style as a "relative" of uncial writing. [2]
Trump Mediaeval (also German Trump Mediäval) is an old-style serif typeface designed by Georg Trump.It was released in 1954 both by the C. E. Weber foundry as metal type and Linotype for hot metal typesetting.
For historical works, one may want to specify the years covered by the entries, e.g. for ''Annals of Tigernach'', AD 34-378 (Dublin fragment); AD 142-361 (2nd fragment), etc. | personages = (leading) characters in a literary text, or historical personages | personages (long list) = additional fields using the full box width, intended for longer ...