Excellent! Looks like a candidate character for encoding. I’m sure I have some examples of good font designs for the old character in one of my books.
> On 4 Jan 2016, at 15:38, Raymond Mercier <[email protected]> wrote: > > The sign described as like 7 is surely a cursive form of π. The form used by > Gauss (Disquisitio de elementis ellipticis Palladis) is much the same as that > shown in manuals of Greek Palaeography as a cursive π. This is given by E.P. > Thompson in two works, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, > Oxford, 1912, p.83, and A Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography, Chicago, > 1975, p. 95. > Raymond Mercier > <Pi_Abbrev.jpg><GaussPallas_21.jpg> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

