tilde over the letter m and the s that looks like f

[Guest]

How do I put a tilde over the letter m? It appears in the word comande as
used by Thomas (Fortescue) Clermont representing a letter of Sir Faithful
Fortescue in Clermont's book A History of the Family of Fortescue in All its
Branches (1880).

Also how do I type the s that looks like an f that Clermont used throughout
his work?

 

[Jezebel]

You can superimpose any two glyphs using an EQ field: { EQ \o (~,m) }.
You'll need to raise the tilde a few points (Format > Font > Character
spacing) to get it to look right.

Google will find you a number of fonts you can download that contain the
long-s. Most glorious is Cardo (http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html),
produced by the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative.

 

[Joe McGuire]

The "s" you are referring to is often called the long s. Itis available as
017F (Unicode). You will find it in Inssert, Symbols. You will probably
have a hard time scrolling through to find it. Instead of scrolling just
type in 017F and it should appear. You can use a hot key or other shortcuts
if you plan to use it a lot. No idea about the M, though.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can also look in the Latin Extended-A character subset. But I have to
say that the character thus produced does not look at all like a long S, at
least not in any of the fonts I've looked at.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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