For those interested there is a site, in german, that has the evolution of the German alphabet, including Fraktur. To read it use Google
http://www.google.com enter fraktur, the first one should be it, click on 'translate' and begin your lesson. There are more there also.

My 1902 Manual is stamped in a violet ink on inside cover:
Baker & Hamilton
San Francisco
Los Angeles and
Sacremento
General Distributing Agents

I have not had time to research them and as I am starting a new engagement with a new client today, it seems unlikely I will have the time to do so in the near future.

Tom A.

For the Umlaut and other Unique Letter Styles.

writing �¤, �¶, �¼

Has anyone considered the solution may lay in setting up a dictionaty page of the various unique letters and there closest english letter.

Such may be done by cutting and pasteing the various letter forms,taken from foreign correspondence and pasteing those, along with the nearest english letter, to be stored in a MS Word Document.

Call up the document and reduce it to the "Bar", By clicking the left hand "-" block in the upper right of the page.
Open a new document for writing and call up the stored document to copy the unique letters and paste them into your new writing.

This has worked well for me in the small amount of International correspondence that I have encountered.
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