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The asterisk (/ ˈ æ s t ər ɪ s k / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
This also causes the winding/unwinding issue, albeit only for the innermost level. The latter example also restarts the list's numbering. When writing two consecutive unbulleted paragraphs, prefixing both with the same number of colons avoids the worst issues, but risks confusing people that a new person's message has begun.
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
Start of Protected Area SPA U+0097 151 0302 0227: End of Protected Area EPA U+0098 152 0302 0230: Start of String SOS U+0099 153 0302 0231: Single Graphic Character Introducer SGCI U+009A 154 0302 0232: Single Character Intro Introducer SCI U+009B 155 0302 0233: Control Sequence Introducer: CSI U+009C 156 0302 0234: String Terminator ST U+009D 157
The mark which you are to notice in this lesson is of this shape ? You see it is made by placing a little crooked mark over a period.... The name of this mark is the Question Mark, because it is always put after a question. Sometimes it is called by a longer and harder name. The long and hard name is the Interrogation Point.
He describes the use of the asterisk and the dagger as: "an asterisk makes a light shine, the obelisk cuts and pierces". [ 11 ] Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) described the use of the symbol as follows: "The obelus is appended to words or phrases uselessly repeated, or else where the passage involves a false reading, so that, like the arrow ...
If you’re not in the habit of making a balance sheet, you can quickly draw one up by following these steps: ... So, for example, if you owe $200 in late fees on a $10,000 credit card bill, then ...
For example, subscript letters on the baseline are quite rare, and many typefaces provide only a limited number of superscripted letters. Despite these differences, all reduced-size glyphs go by the same generic terms subscript and superscript , which are synonymous with the terms inferior letter (or number ) and superior letter (or number ...