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Asterisks can be used in textual media to represent *emphasis* when bold or italic text is not available (e.g., Twitter, text messaging). Asterisks may denote conversational repair, or corrections to misspelling or misstatements in previous electronic messages, particularly when replacement or retraction of a previous writing is not possible ...
The 1961 edition used a hollow white star (β), and the 1984 edition used a row of three asterisks. A dinkus is a typographical device to divide text, such as at section breaks. Its purpose is to "indicate minor breaks in text", [7] to call attention to a passage, or to separate sub
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 β Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus
Some texts use asterisks and daggers alongside superscripts, using the former for per-page footnotes and the latter for endnotes. The dagger is also used to indicate death, [5] [23] extinction, [24] or obsolescence. [1] [25] The asterisk and the dagger, when placed beside years, indicate year of birth and year of death respectively. [5]
The question 'why does it matter?' often arises when editors are discussing issues about switching from asterisks to colons in a discussion (and vice-versa). Colons and asterisks are part of our wiki-markup and are used extensively on talk pages of all types to indent comments and replies in a debate. The issue is that Wikipedia misuses lists ...
An asterism, β, is a typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle. Its purpose is to "indicate minor breaks in text", to call attention to a passage, or to separate sub-chapters in a book. It is also used in meteorology to indicate 'moderate snowfall'.
These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks.
asterisk operator ∗: U+2217: May be used for the telephone star key: Star of David: : U+2721 six-pointed black star U+2736 Slavonic asterisk κ³ U+A673 six-pointed star with middle dot/hexagram: π―: U+1F52F Vai full stop κ U+A60E full width asterisk οΌ U+FF0A Six spoke asterisk, various weights π΅πΆπ· πΈπΉπΊ U+1F7B5 to U+ ...