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A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. [1] The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). [ 2 ]
Asterisk, Dagger: Footnote ¤ Scarab (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus
The dagger symbol †, also called an obelisk, [10] is derived from the obelus, and continues to be used for this purpose. The obelus is believed to have been invented by the Homeric scholar Zenodotus, as one of a system of editorial symbols. They marked questionable or corrupt words or passages in manuscripts of the Homeric epics. [9]
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Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged fl: Flush left: Align text flush with left margin fr: Flush right: Align text flush with right margin eq # Equalize spacing: ls: Letterspace: Adjust letterspacing: ital: Italics: Put in italics rom: Roman: Put in Roman (non-italic) font bf: Boldface: Put in boldface lc ...
English: Dagger and double-dagger symbols in various fonts (Unicode: U+2020 dagger, U+2021 double dagger). Used fonts: DejaVu Sans, Times New Roman, LTC Remington Typewriter, Garamond, Old English Text MT. SVG version
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