STYLE: alphabetizing list of symbols

[Elsa Kapitan-White <kapitan-white -at- SUGAR-LAND -dot- OILFIELD -dot- SLB -dot- COM>]

I'm not a member of the indexing list, so I'm posting this query to COPYEDITING-L and TECHWR-L: How to alphabetically organize lists of symbols presented in a glossary?  For example (the underscore precedes a subscript):

H       hydrogen index
h       thickness or height above the free-water level
H_gas       hydrogen index of gas
H_h     hydrogen index of hydrocarbons
h_mc    mudcake thickness or tool standoff
H_oil       hydrogen index of oil
H_w     hydrogen index of water

I'm using letter-by-letter alphabetization. Chicago 14th says at 17.99 that "when a person, a place, and a thing have the same name, they are arranged in normal alphabetical order." I have both capital letter H and lowercase letter h symbols -- which should go first? I didn't see a suggestion for this in Chicago, save for the example list on page 739, in which the word "newt" precedes the acronym "NEWT" (and how would "Newt" for Speaker Gingrich's first name be included?).  Thanks, Elsa


 Elsa Kapitan-White <kapitan-white -at- SUGAR-LAND -dot- OILFIELD -dot- SLB -dot- COM>
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