At 11:47 PM 1/21/2003 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote
I am glad to learn of the proposal, and realize that I should have checked the Unicode site first.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).
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
