From: Raymond Mercier (RaymondM@compuserve.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 04:56:03 EST
At 11:47 PM 1/21/2003 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote
>Thanks for the link, John. Indeed, the TLG proposal for numerals [1]
>does include a GREEK HALF SIGN, although their preferred glyph does not
>include the "prime" sign Raymond mentioned (it is listed as a glyph
>variant, however).
I am glad to learn of the proposal, and realize that I should have checked
the Unicode site first.
There are indeed many variants for this sign, with none, one, or two
primes. Sometimes the sign is as I described, or at other times as a sort
of scrunched up stigma, and so on. What troubles me a little about the
proposal is that it may depend more on the way editors have handled it
rather than on what is used in the manuscripts. For examples Heiberg's
edition of Heron is quoted in the proposal.
Raymond
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jan 22 2003 - 05:28:51 EST