John Cowan wrote: > Marco Cimarosti scripsit: > > > (BTW, what's the English for "trattino obliquo"!?) > > "Slanted hyphen". Sometimes used in dictionaries to show > syllable breaks > in lieu of the MIDDLE DOT. There does not seem to be a Unicode > character for it, though -- at least, I searched NameList in vain.
But the one I am talking about is what we'd call a combining mark, attached under the signs. (Having recovered from my lapsus, I'd translate it "small slanted stroke".) _ Marco
