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| â | ê | î | ô | û | ä | ë | ï | ö | ü | á | é | í | ó | ú | à | è | ì | ò | ù | ||
| Ê | É | ñ | ß | s | t | u | r | --- | -- | x | y | q | - | ? | ! | ||||||
| È | Ë | [ | * | s | v | w | z | : | ; | ||||||||||||
| § | ¦ | k | h | m | i | n | o | p | . | ¼p | |||||||||||
| Ä | Ö | Ü | « | l | 1½p | spa | , | gev | |||||||||||||
| Æ | OE | Ç | 2p | c | a | 1/3p | e | d | fi | fl | ff | quad | |||||||||
| æ | oe | ç | ½p | b | f | g | |||||||||||||||
This typecase lay is shown by Hostettler: Technical Terms of the Printing Industry (1949, and still in 4th rev ed 1963) as being the German/Swiss lay as used by Zollikofer & Co AG for the Latin (as opposed to Fraktur) alphabet. The empty case is German/Swiss Latin and there is an equivalent Fraktur case and lay.
The ¦ represents a single dagger, -- is en rule (Halbgeviertgedankenstrich) and --- em rule (Geviertgedankenstrich). Spacing is 1½p = starke spatien 1/3p=drittelspatien ¼p = viertelspatien ½p = halbgevierte (and 1pt = haarspatien).
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