IS 9609 : Part 2 : 2006 /ISO 3098-3 : 2000 Technical Product Documentation - Lettering Part 2 Greek Alphabet

National Foreword

This Indian Standard (Part 2) (First Revision) which is identical with ISO 3098-3: 2000?Technical productdocumentation - Lettering - Part 3: Greek alphabet? issued by the International Organizationfor Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendationof the Drawings Sectional Committee and approval of the Production and General Engineering DivisionCouncil.

IS 9609 (Part 2) :1985, which is identical with ISO 3098-2:1984 was adopted by the Bureau of IndianStandards in 1985. This second edition of ISO 3098-3:2000 cancels andreplaces the first editionof ISO 3098-2 : 1984 and titled as ?Technical product documentation ? Lettering ? Part 3 : Greekalphabet?.

This Part 3 of ISO 3098 has been renumbered as Part 2 in otxferto maintain the sequence of partnumbers of IS 9609 sereis of IS Standards.

This standard specifies use of the Greek alphabet, as symbolsin teohniosddrawingsand associateddocuments with. It primarily concerns letters written with the aid of stencifs,but is equally applicabletofreehand lettering or other appropriate methods.

The other parts in this series are:

Part 0 General requirements

Part 1 Latin alphabet, numerals and marks (second revision)

Part 3 Diacritical and particular marks for the Latin alphabet (first revision)

Part 4 Cyrillic alphabet (first revision)

Part 5 Amplified devnagri letters

Part 6 CAD lettering of the Latin alphabet, numerals and marks

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard withoutdeviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention isparticularly drawn to the following:

a)Wherever the words ?International Standard? appear referring to this standard, they shouldbe read as ?Indian Standard?.

b)Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practiceis to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

In this adopted standard, reference appears to the following International Standard for which IndianStandard also exists. The corresponding Indian Standard which is to be substituted in its place is listedbelow along with its degree .of equivalence for the edition indicated: