Descender frequency question

barbara beeton bnb at tug.org
Sun May 5 01:45:55 CEST 2024


On Sat, 4 May 2024, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:

> From one of the simplest scripts in the world using "tr" and "wc" to count
> the amount of gjpqy in the texts, and then running on a gazillion of texts
> to see the distribution and frequencies.
> It is no secret that distribution of letters in a language are very uniform.
> 
> Paulo Ney
> 
> On Sat, May 4, 2024, 3:48 PM Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:
>       Nice answer, where did you get these numbers from?

But, may I remind you, that the italic alphabet differs from the roman
form, and in math texts, there is a lot of italic, so at least "f"
should be included.  That would likely kick the frequency up a bit for
math texts.
 						-- bb



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