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Asterisks used to illustrate a section break in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Three spaced asterisks centered on a page is called a dinkus and may represent a jump to a different scene, thought, or section. A group of three asterisks arranged in a triangular formation is called an asterism. It may be used instead of a name on a title page. [52]
In older texts, it is called an obelisk. [3] [a] A double dagger, or diesis, ‡ is a variant with two hilts and crossguards that usually marks a third footnote after the asterisk and dagger. [5] The triple dagger ⹋ is a variant with three crossguards and is used by medievalists to indicate another level of notation. [6]
Corner quotes, also called “Quine quotes”; for quasi-quotation, i.e. quoting specific context of unspecified (“variable”) expressions; [4] also used for denoting Gödel number; [5] for example “⌜G⌝” denotes the Gödel number of G. (Typographical note: although the quotes appears as a “pair” in unicode (231C and 231D), they ...
n·h, pronounced [n.h], versus nh, pronounced [ɲ], for example in in·hèrn 'hell' vs vinha 'vineyard' Although it is considered to be a spelling error, a period is frequently used when a middle dot is unavailable: des.har, in.hèrn , which is the case for French keyboard layout .
In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list.For example: Red; Green; Blue; The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond or arrow.
[8] [1] The word period was used as a name for what printers often called the "full point", the punctuation mark that was a dot on the baseline and used in several situations. The phrase full stop was only used to refer to the punctuation mark when it was used to terminate a sentence. [ 1 ]
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Open pages of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, showing an ornate section break on the lower left page created from asterisks. It is used to signal a pause for the reader and a transition in the narrative. In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter. [1] [2]