Do readers remember a reference to mice and men and best laid plans? Omscaler is now including ampersands. Why ampersands the reader may wonder? Well as of late the safari hunt for the fabled GM&O ampersand has been ramped up. Recent efforts have been less than successful. This ampersand is a very unique squiggle in its own right. Omscaler has never seen anything else like it. An internet search for the elusive ampersand came up with zilch. Purchasing the animal has turned out to be a non-option. Why is this font so unusual? For one, it has an appearance of a Cyrillic “E” or a backward three or some other thing. The second thing is that at the lower right it has an inverted small “T” with a bent tail. This character is a character! An odd bird indeed. The serif is strange too. Omscaler had to back up and make ready to punt, so to speak. At this writing, some old GM&O Historical Society publications were pulled from storage (a hutch drawer) and scrutinized closely. Book by book. A likely candidate was found. The plan is to scan the offending ampersand into the desk top computer and try to manipulate it to the correct dimensions. We will see what we will see. Moving forward with optimism, omscaler
