Editing SS (section)

===Use in Roman type===
[[File:ß from Hieronymi Aleandri Mottensis Tabulae utilißimae, Köln 1541.png|thumb|left|The ''ſs'' ligature used for Latin in 16th-century printing ({{lang|la|utiliſsimæ}})]]
[[File:Lang-s-Rund-s Blaeu_Essen.gif|thumb|''[[Essen]]'' with ſs-ligature reads ''Eßen'' (Latin [[Joan Blaeu|Blaeu]] atlas, text printed in Antiqua, 1650s).]]
[[File:French Eszett.jpg|thumb|left|French usage as a ligature for ⟨ss⟩ in 1784 from [[Galerie des Modes et Costumes Français|Gallerie des Modes]]]]

In early modern Latin type ([[antiqua (typeface class)|antiqua]]), a ligature similar to modern {{angbr|ß}} developed out of a long s followed by a round s ({{angbr|ſs}}), and as such was used in languages such as Italian in alternation with {{angbr|ſſ}}, usually based on requirements of space on the page.<ref>{{cite book|author-last=Michel |author-first=Andreas |chapter=Italian orthography in Early Modern times |title=Orthographies in Early Modern Europe |editor-last1=Baddeley |editor-first1=Susan |editor-last2=Voeste |editor-first2=Anja |year=2012 |publisher=de Gruyter Mouton |doi=10.1515/9783110288179.63 |pages=63–96|isbn=978-3-11-028817-9 }}</ref>{{rp|76}} However, despite its resemblance to the modern {{angbr|ß}}, this ligature was not commonly used as an equivalent to the Fraktur {{angbr|sz}} in German.<ref name="mosley">{{citation|last=Mosley|first=James|date=2008-01-31|title=Esszet or ß|website=Typefoundry|url=https://typefoundry.blogspot.com/2008/01/esszett-or.html|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref><ref name="jamra">{{citation|last=Jamra|first=Mark|year=2006|title=The Eszett| website=TypeCulture|url=https://typeculture.com/academic-resource/articles-essays/the-eszett/|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> This ligature generally fell out of use in the eighteenth century, together with the use of long s in antiqua.<ref name="brekle"/>{{rp|73}} German works printed in Roman type in the late 18th and early 19th centuries such as [[Johann Gottlieb Fichte]]'s {{lang|de|Wissenschaftslehre}} did not provide any equivalent to the {{angbr|ß}}.<ref name="brekle"/>{{rp|74}}

[[Jacob Grimm]] began using {{angbr|ß}} in his {{lang|de|Deutsche Grammatik}} (1819); however, it varied with {{angbr|ſſ}} word internally.<ref name="brekle"/>{{rp|74}} Grimm eventually rejected the use of the character; in their {{lang|de|[[Deutsches Wörterbuch]]}} (1838), the [[Brothers Grimm]] favored writing it as {{angbr|sz}}.<ref name="jamra"/>{{rp|2}} The [[First Orthographic Conference (German)|First Orthographic Conference]] in Berlin (1876) recommended that ''ß'' be represented as {{angbr|ſs}} – however, both suggestions were ultimately rejected.<ref name="young"/>{{rp|269}}<ref name="walder"/>{{rp|222}} In 1879, a proposal for various letter forms was published in the ''[[Journal für Buchdruckerkunst]]''.  A committee of the [[Typographic Society of Leipzig]] chose the "Sulzbacher form". In 1903, it was proclaimed as the new standard for the Eszett in Roman type.<ref name="jamra"/>{{rp|3-5}}

Until the abolition of Fraktur in 1941, it was common for [[family name]]s to be written with {{angbr|ß}} in Fraktur and {{angbr|ss}} in Roman type. The formal abolition resulted in inconsistencies in how names are written in modern German (such as between Heuss and Heuß).<ref name="poschenrieder"/>{{rp|176}}