It is true that the Wiki page names will mostly not typically be used by 
the reader. However, I think that it would still be nice to have the 
page names have the following characteristics:

1) The page name should use common English names that obviously tie to 
the symbols on the associated page. An English-speaking person should be 
able to easily determine the referenced symbol from it's ASCII page 
name. Most people should be able to pick the symbol out of a list of all 
of the J symbols, given its' ASCII page name. This eliminates names such 
as "circum", "circumflex", or "asciicircum" for "hat" (who knew?).

2) The names should be as short as possible without loosing their 
semantic content.
That makes "star" better than "asterisk" (shorter), number for 
numbersign, amp for ampersand, quotsing for quotesingle , dot for 
period, under for underscore, and tilde for asciitilde   I know that 
"star" means something different in the APL character set, but we are 
only concerned with pure ASCII here, and the general English-speaking 
audience.

There is no reason to tie this naming scheme to any other "standard".  
IMHO, it is more important to have an easy connection between the page 
name and the symbol that any English speaker can grasp, than following 
some standard. A secondary goal would be the brevity of the ASCII name.
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Ian has posted my proposal on his PageNames page: 
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/FormalPageNames

Thanks Ian..  By the way, I couldn't get your charname.ijs working. I 
kept getting an error on the undefined verb "cmx" in the script.

Skip Cave
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