I think you're doing the right thing, as the "official" symbol is ⍷ (U+2377
APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL EPSILON UNDERBAR).

I do agree that in some fonts, this symbol isn't rendered very well. I
recently switched to using "Iosevka Fixed" for APL, and find it looks
pretty good:

I'm including a screenshot of the different symbols:

[image: image.png]


On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 at 19:28, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <m...@juergen-sauermann.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have changed some GNU APL output characters:
>
> U+2208  aka. ∈ is now U+03F5 aka. ϵ and
> U+22F8 aka. ⋸ is now U+2377 aka. ⍷
>
> When I started GNU APL, I used xterm and the characters had the size of
> lowercase 'a'. These days (on non-xterms) the size has increased to more
> than uppercase 'A' which looks rather odd.
>
> On input GNU APL accepts both so this change should do no harm.
>
> The ⍷ has become a little too small for my taste, so if anybody knows a
> slightly larger Unicode then please let me know.
>
> *SVN 1521*.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jürgen
>
>

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