[Bug 27754] New: Two archaic Greek letters in TeX

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27754

Summary: Two archaic Greek letters in TeX
Product: MediaWiki
Version: wikimedia-deployment
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: ha...@math.umn.edu

This is a feature request rather than a bug report.

Wikipedia's limited version of [[TeX]] is immensely useful in mathematics
articles.  In particular one can type any and all of the 24 letters of the
standard Greek alphabet:
:
: $\alpha\beta\gamma\delta\epsilon\zeta\eta\theta\iota\kappa\lambda\mu\nu\xi\omicron\pi\rho\sigma\tau\upsilon\varphi\chi\psi\omega. \,$
:
However, one cannot (as far as I can tell so far) type the lower-case [[stigma
(letter)|stigma]] or [[koppa (letter)|koppa]].  These were used in ancient
[[Greek numerals]], and in Wikipedia articles that need to mention ancient
Greek arithmetic, they would be useful.  For examlpe, the 2nd-century
trigonometric table on page 48 of
[http://www.wilbourhall.org/pdfs/HeibergAlmagestComplete.pdf this pdf file]
uses both stigma and koppa.  I think these can be found in some [[LaTex]]
packages.  I would like to see them available for use in Wikipedia articles.
Can someone here help with that?

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