Hello, I'm making an ePub and I don't know what character the letter in apex in this image is.
Looks close to a superscripted Georgian Letter Man character ( მ 0x10DB ). Ghod alone knows what it actually is.
It looks to me like text from an OCR that recognized the other letters in the word and just used the original image of the character for one it didn’t recognize. In that case it might be the letter “d”.
It's almost the symbol of the year
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2202Whether or not that's what was intended, that's a different matter.
It's the partial derivative sign: ∂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%88%82I’d agree with jhowell’s assessment as to the cause… perhaps do a spelling check of the ePub and see what words show up that are similar to “bar_sman”
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Yes, this is exactly what I was going to say too. Partial Derivative:
- ∂ (U+2202) PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
If you give more context (like the sentence/paragraph), maybe we could guess a bit better.
Does it appear anywhere else in the book?
What language is the book?
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Whether or not that's what was intended, that's a different matter.
Yeah, could be an actual typo, or a copy/paste error or something. Maybe they thought it was a little apostrophe and it slipped by the editor.
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It looks to me like text from an OCR that recognized the other letters in the word and just used the original image of the character for one it didnt recognize. In that case it might be the letter d.
Hmmm, this may also be the case too. An italic, lowercase "d", that accidentally got recognized.
If you're working on a mathematical text, that may be possible.
Could it be a mis-OCR’d “dh” making the word bardhman?
Edit: do you have the original to compare with?
Thank you everyone. I checked again and it's probably not an error. See attachment for more context. Your suggestions seem fine with me anyway.
Based on that text it looks to me like the word should be "baresman".
