USMARC CHARACTER LOWER CASE SCRIPT L

[Anna Booth]

Could you tell me when the lower case script l is used?

Anna

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[J. McRee Elrod]

> Could you tell me when the lower case script l is used?
> Anna

Back when we had it on typewriters, we used it as the title letter in
DCC Cutters, so it would not look like the number one.

J. McRee (Mac) Elrod | Special Libraries Cataloguing, Inc.
jel...@IslandNet.com | Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada

[Edward Swanson]

The only use I can think of is as a work mark in a Cutter number
substituting for the character "l", which might be taken for a one. It
has no use in the description under the provisions of AACR 2.

Edward Swanson
swa...@macalstr.edu

On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Anna Booth wrote:

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> Could you tell me when the lower case script l is used?
>
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> Anna
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[Betsy Gamble]

It used to be used in the 300 field as the abbreviation for "leaves" to
avoid confusion with numbers of pages in that area.

Betsy Gamble
CTS Searching/Fastcat
Cornell University Library

[Howard Pasternack]

Script L is not a USMARC character. Whatever its uses, it was never
defined in the USMARC character set. This is one of the reasons why many
local system vendors do not support the input or display of the character
and why utilities such as OCLC and RLIN output it using different ASCII
codes.