On Mon Aug 12, 17:07, Ronald S. Wood has asked for the ISO 10646 / Unicode codings for some symbols used in classics. Unfortunately, the Unicode.COM listserver has omitted the MIME headers, so I had to guess, and manually insert, them in order to view the GIF attachment. I think that the symbols used in Classics have not been considered when Unicode has been defined, yet Unicode /ISO 10646 comprises characters suitable for some of them. Metrical symbols ---------------- short 02D8 BREVE (sub SPACING MODIFIER LETTERS) long 00AF MACRON (sub LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT) or 02C9 MODIFIER LETTER MACRON (sub SPACING MODIFIER LETTERS) or 203E OVERLINE (sub GENERAL PUNCTUATION) period end 2016 DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (sub GENERAL PUNCTUATION) The following symbols could also be encoded by multiple characters: period end 2 × 007C VERTICAL LINE (sub BASIC LATIN) strophe end 3 × 007C VERTICAL LINE (sub BASIC LATIN) usually long 02D8 BREVE (sub SPACING MODIFIER LETTERS) + 0332 COMBINING LOW LINE (sub COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKS) usually short 02D8 BREVE (sub SPACING MODIFIER LETTERS) + 0305 COMBINING OVERLINE (sub COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKS) contracted biceps 2025 TWO DOT LEADER (sub GENERAL PUNCTUATION) + 0332 COMBINING LOW LINE (sub COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKS) However, the vertical alignment of the metrical symbols (except the end symbols) may not be as expected. I have not found suitable encodings for resolvable long contractible biceps Signa textui inserta -------------------- Are these widely agreed characters, at all? I guess, they are chosen ad hoc, just to be discernible within the limited context of a single edition. If so, any set of discernable character would fit in. Nevertheless, some of the symbols used by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft can be coded in Unicode / ISO 10646, viz.: alfa 03B1 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA (sub BASIC GREEK) or 237A APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL ALPHA (sub MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL) circle 25CB WHITE CIRCLE (sub GEOMETRIC SHAPE) or 25E6 WHITE BULLET (sub GEOMETRIC SHAPE) or 25EF LARGE CIRCLE (sub GEOMETRIC SHAPE) box 25A1 WHITE SQUARE (sub GEOMETRIC SHAPE) or 25AB WHITE SMALL SQUARE (sub GEOMETRIC SHAPE) or BALLOT BOX (sub MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS) backslash 005C REVERSE SOLIDUS (sub BASIC LATIN) or 2216 SET MINUS (sub MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS) From the picture supplied, I could not quite recognize the other symbols, perhaps: T-like 22A4 DOWN TACK (sub MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS) Gamma-like 2308 LEFT CEILING (sub MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL) (-like 2320 TOP HALF INTEGRAL (sub MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL) )-like - S-like 222B INTEGRAL (sub MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS) or 0283 LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH (sub IPA EXTENSIONS) S-mirrorlike 2240 WREATH PRODUCT (sub MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS) or 0285 LATIN SMALL SQUAT REVERSED LETTER ESH (sub IPA EXTENSIONS) In contrast to my expectations, ISO 10646 / Unicode apparently does *not* comprise a COMBINING MIDDLE DOT (though there are letters such as 013F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE DOT). The only combining character resembling a middle dot apparently is 05BC HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ; howewver, I would not dare to use it with non-hebrew characters. Perhaps, you could use the non-combining character 00B7 MIDDLE DOT to code the dottet Bibelgesellschaft signs. Best wishes, Otto Stolz