Long-s Ratio Calculator
Count long s (ſ) and round s characters in a transcription and report the exact long-s share of all s glyphs plus its frequency per thousand characters.
Description
Count long s (ſ) and round s characters in a transcription and report the exact long-s share of all s glyphs plus its frequency per thousand characters.
Long-s Ratio Calculator: Count long s (ſ) and round s characters in a transcription and report the exact long-s share of all s glyphs plus its frequency per thousand characters.
When to use Long-s Ratio
Use this palaeographic utility to apply a stated dating, script, abbreviation, codicological, metrological, layout, or condition rule consistently while preparing manuscripts for scholarly review.
- Text sample
- Transcription sample to scan.
How Long-s Ratio works
Count long s (ſ) and round s characters in a transcription and report the exact long-s share of all s glyphs plus its frequency per thousand characters. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- Long s
- Occurrences of ſ.
- Round s
- Occurrences of plain s.
- % of s
- Long s as a percentage of all s glyphs.
- Per 1000 chars
- Long s occurrences per thousand characters.
Limitations and assumptions
- Script and manuscript evidence varies by language, region, institution, period, scribe, material, restoration, and cataloguing convention. A heuristic flag or score is not an authoritative date, hand attribution, reading, provenance, or conservation diagnosis.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Retain page images, scale, foliation, material, provenance, diplomatic transcription, uncertainty, and comparison exemplars; confirm conclusions with codicological context and specialist judgment.
References
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Palaeography — Wikipedia contributors
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