The typographic point in history

["Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@csc-sun.math.utah.edu>]

I don't expect this posting to generate discussion, but you might be
interested in looking at

	http://www.irisa.fr/faqtypo/truchet/truchet.html

(available in French and English) on the history of the origin of
the typographic point.

It turned up in a current discussion on the Unicode list about ISO
standardization of typographic units.

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