Gaila & Jim Merrington wrote:
> >> three groups like £|Š|p. I was wondering if you could clarify this part.
> 
> These symbols indicate:  Pounds/Shillings/Pence
> These indicate a use of the British Currency System.
> Gaila

You are quite correct about the £|Š|p notation.  However, there were no such
symbols used in the transcription I made of Benjamin Lavender's 1836 Heirs.  My
transcription only used American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(ASCII) characters.  The symbols given in my transcription were symbols for
dollars and cents (i.e. $ and ¢). It seemed to me that the reader might not have
been viewing the message using a standard ASCII font style.  Since I know that
we have readers in other countries, and some others who may be using non-ascii
fonts, I thought it would be good to explain that issue in some detail.

The commonly accepted format for all email is ASCII fixed pitch fonts such as
Courier.  It is also recommended that messages be wrapped with a line width of
80 characters per line or less.  This assures maximum compatibility since many
people still use monitors and display resolutions which cannot display more than
80 characters per line.

Steve Coker

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