Ancient Greek Symbols
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We have a question concerning these ancient coin Greek passage (Plutarchian Greek) symbols and the old Greek lambda. In the attachment it is the chicken foot symbol and the "l" or "angle" symbol in the equations. What braille symbols should we use? Thank You!!!
Hello Ms Billman and all of your transcribers!
The old Greek Lambda (looks kinda-sorta like a mathematical "less than" sign) is actually a Phonecian version of lambda.
Beyond this application, I have most often seen the "chicken foot" used in set theory in mathematics. There it commonly known as the pitchfork (unicode U+22D4).
Because there are no established braille symbols for these in UEB or other natural language braille codes, it will be appropriate to use transcriber-defined symbols for these print characters (RUEB 3.26). These will fulfill what RUEB 13.6.2 considers "category 1" - signs representing the basic elements of the script (whether alphabet, syllabary, or other).
These should be included on the Special Symbols page in the category for non-English language symbols. All the usual criteria for representing non-English languages in your document will apply.
Please let us know if this answers your question, and/or if you have follow up questions!
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