Re: Obelus and Metobelus characters?

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:11:30AM -0700, vanisaac_at_boil.afraid.org wrote:
> From: Petr Tomasek <tomasek_at_etf.cuni.cz>
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm trying to find out if there are "somwhere in Unicode" the
> > characters used in ancient greek textual criticism, the so-called
> > "obelus" and "metobelus signs". See this:
> >
> > http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/obl.jpg
> >
> > I found following signs, none of them seems to be exactly
> > what I'm looking for:
> >
> > U+070B SYRIAC HARKLEAN OBELUS
> > U+070C SYRIAC HARKLEAN METOBELUS
> >
> > The obelus seems like to be the right shape, but it is a RTL
> > character. I further found these suggested to have the
> > function of obelus, but they have quite different shapes:
> >
> > U+2020 DAGGER
> > U+00F7 DIVISION SIGN
> >
> > My question is thus: have I missed something?
> >
> > Thank You!
> >
> > P.T.
> > --
> > Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
>
> U+2E13 - Dotted Obelos and

No, that not correct, this one is an alterantive glyph for "metobelos".

See http://books.google.cz/books?id=SIMsY6b2n2gC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=metobelos&source=bl&ots=X89ohmkgZV&sig=wXFr86dnxikILZfd7iF2TaC9RLc&hl=cs&ei=MnVFTpy5EMr5sgaOiP3FBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=metobelos&f=false

Anyway, I found the suitable glyph as U+2A2A MINUS SIGN WITH DOT BELOW.

> U+2E14 - Downwards Ancora

Ok, this one is perhaps the right codepoint, unfortunatelly, all the fonts
I checked had rather strange shape for this glyph (as has the unicode
codetable :( )

Thanks a lot!

P.T.

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