Support for ℟ and ℣

[SirPL]

I would like to ask for addition of two barred glyphs:

• ℟ Response (U+211F)
• ℣ Versicle (U+2123)

Usage

• Those glyphs are used in latin liturgical books of Roman Catholic Church. They indicate change of person in a dialog.
• Interestingly, in various books the small-caps variants of those glyphs are used, yet none of a typeface supporting ℟ and ℣ provides smcp variants.
• Both glyphs are (almost) always succeeded with a period.

A bar shape

There are three main bar shapes used in books:

• L-shaped (like in Times New Roman)
• J-shaped
• integral symbol ∫-shaped

Examples of glyphs

• Glyphs present in Charis SIL Regular typeface
• ℣ occuring multiple times (i.e. on the very bottom) in Antphonarium Romanum, 1769
• A page of Breviarium Romanum, 1888
• Another example of ℣ (also on the very bottom of the page) in Graduale Romanum, 1961
• A page of Graduale Simplex, 1975

[frankrolf]

Thanks for this detailed report. I will consider the addition of this glyph in a future release.

FWIW, in my own research, I found small-cap height ℟ and ℣ characters in the fonts EB Garamond and Old Standard TT: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/eb-garamond https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Old+Standard+TT