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This is the type of symbol used by Eduard Sievers in his Altgermanische Metrik (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1893). They are still frequently used in text books, monographs and articles on Medieval Nordic metrics. Thesaurus Linguae Grecae (TLG) has recently proposed a set of metrical symbols for Greek. This proposal was approved by Unicode and made part of v. 4.1 of the Unicode Standard. The TLG proposal includes symbols for the short syllable (breve), for the combination of a short and long syllable (metrical short over long, or metrical long over short) and for a combination of a long and two short syllables. These characters have been added to Miscellaneous Technical (see pp. 71–72 above). The default character (anceps) is identified with MULTIPLICATION SIGN (00D7) in Latin-1 Supplement (p. 27), and the symbol for long syllable (longum) is identified with FIGURE DASH (2012) or EN DASH (2013) in General Punctuation (p. 61). Combinations of anceps, breve or longum with acute accent, grave accent or double acute accent can be achieved by using COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT (0301), COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT (0300) or COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT (030B) in Combining Diacritical Marks (pp. 42–43). However, this does not work well in all applications, so for the time being precomposed characters will be useful. Junicode and Alphabetum have metrical symbols in different locations of the Private Use Area, so a code-point conflict is inevitable for this range. Since Al- phabetum has the largest selection, code points in this font have been chosen, metrical symbols being placed in the F700–F71F section. However, all duplicate code points in Junicode as of version 0.6.12 are listed below. Alphabetum contains a number of additional metrical symbols, possibly also of interest for Medi- eval usage. See the F700–F76F section of this font. Note that combining single and double vertical bars are located in Combining Diacritical Marks, code points 030D and 030E (p. 44 above). They are used to indicate stress (single bar) and stress + alliteration (double bar).

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  F700

  METRICAL SYMBOL LONGUM

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  F701

  METRICAL SYMBOL BREVE

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  F702

  METRICAL SYMBOL BREVE ABOVE LONGUM (SHORT OR LONG SYLLABLE)

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  F703

  METRICAL SYMBOL LONGUM ABOVE BREVE (SHORT OR LONG SYLLABLE)

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  F704

  METRICAL SYMBOL LONGUM WITH ACUTE (PRIMARY STRESS)

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  F705

  METRICAL SYMBOL LONGUM WITH GRAVE (SECONDARY STRESS)

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  F706

  METRICAL SYMBOL BREVE WITH ACUTE (PRIMARY STRESS)

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  F707

  METRICAL SYMBOL BREVE WITH GRAVE (SECONDARY STRESS)

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  F708

  METRICAL SYMBOL BREVE ABOVE LONGUM WITH ACUTE (SHORT OR LONG SYLLABLE WITH PRIMARY STRESS)

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  F709

  METRICAL SYMBOL BREVE ABOVE LONGUM WITH GRAVE (SHORT OR LONG SYLLABLE WITH SECONDARY STRESS)

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  F70A

  METRICAL SYMBOL ANCEPS

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  F70B

  METRICAL SYMBOL ANCEPS WITH ACUTE (PRIMARY STRESS)

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  F70C

  METRICAL SYMBOL ANCEPS WITH GRAVE (SECONDARY STRESS)

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  F714

  METRICAL SYMBOL PAUSE

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  F715

  METRICAL SYMBOL LONGUM WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (SECONDARY STRESS)

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  F716

  METRICAL SYMBOL LONGUM WITH DOUBLE GRAVE (SECONDARY STRESS AND ALLITERATION)

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  F717

  METRICAL SYMBOL BREVE WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (PRIMARY STRESS AND ALLITERATION)

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  F718

  METRICAL SYMBOL BREVE WITH DOUBLE GRAVE (SECONDARY STRESS AND ALLITERATION)

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  F719

  METRICAL SYMBOL ANCEPS WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (PRIMARY STRESS AND ALLITERATION)

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  F71A

  METRICAL SYMBOL ANCEPS WITH DOUBLE GRAVE (SECONDARY STRESS AND ALLITERATION)

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  F71B

  METRICAL SYMBOL RESOLVED LIFT WITH ACUTE (PRIMARY STRESS)

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  F71C

  METRICAL SYMBOL RESOLVED LIFT WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (PRIMARY STRESS AND ALLITERATION)

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  F72E

  METRICAL SYMBOL RESOLVED LIFT