At 07:49 PM 7/1/99 -0500, Scott Horne wrote:
>> The Greek characters are A-Omega and alpha-omega, plus 6 or seven
>> variant characters that tend to get used in Math.
>
>Why bother with variants? Anyone who uses, say, printed and script
>pi (rho, phi, beta, theta, kappa, epsilon, whatever) in the same text
THETA and THETA SYMBOL, are indeed used contrastively. You will find THETA
SYMBOL used for temperatures and THETA for angles. Nothing wrong with that.
>deserves the confusion that will inevitably result, whether the
>variants are available to him or not.
>
>Also, final sigma is never used in math.
We are double checking the entire list with the AMS (American Mathematical
Society) and international math publishers. Collectively they are the best
set of experts to come close to reliable answers to the 'is it ever used'
question.
>Nor are digamma, koppa,
>sampi, &c, unless you're preparing mathematical texts that use
>ancient Greek numeration.
These are not in the current proposal, for that reason.
A./
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:47 EDT