[vsnet-id 60] Re: Greek letters

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

> In reference to vsnet-id 50 (Mr. Kinnunen) : the Simbad User's Guide recommend
> to use three roman letters for each greek letter : alf, bet, gam, etc. For the
> greek letters mu, nu and pi it is recommended to write mu., nu. and pi.
> Somewhere I read (but my memory lets me down!) to write miu and niu for the
> greek letters mu and nu. In our database the variable mu Cep is written

   Three-letter codes for Greek characters also seem difficult to use
consistently when combined with suffix digits.  Famous examples in variable
stars include mu1 Sco (mu.1 Sco? miu1??).

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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