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Frank Reed you wrote:  By the way, the long s letter in old printing definitely resembles the letter f, but if you look closely, it's not an f. Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s.

Frank
It was just a bit of fun after looking at a couple of pdfs on my sparkling new DVD which will save hours of downloading from the www.  I did think of looking for a ye olde font, but I thought even if I find a ‘long s’ your website's innards might not be able to handle it, so I just used f. Does this work ‘di∫olve’?  that’s the integral sign.  Also, some typefaces do seem to have ‘long s’s with the faintest hint of a crosspiece at the left.

Printing conventions changed over the years and from nation to nation as to exactly when and where you should use the ‘long s’.  However, it was hardly ever used at the end of a word, and it was always pronounced ‘s’ not ‘f’, which is a pity, because you could really have had Freudian fun with it.  DaveP