Information about Asterism (typography)

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apostrophe ( ’ ' ) brackets ( ), [ ], { }, < > colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒, –, —, ― ) ellipsis ( …, ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) guillemets ( ' ' ) hyphen ( -, ‐ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’, “ ” ) semicolon ( ; ) slash/stroke ( / ) solidus ( ∕ )
Interword separation
spaces ( ) ( ) ( ) interpunct ( )
General typography
ampersand ( & ) asterisk ( * ) at ( @ ) backslash ( \ ) bullet ( • ) caret ( ^ ) currency ( ) , $, €, , , ₩, ₪ dagger/obelisk ( † ) ( ‡ ) degree ( ) dele ( ) emoticons (☻ ) inverted exclamation point ( ) inverted question mark ( ) number sign ( # ) numero sign ( № ) percent and related signs ( %, ‰, ‱ ) pilcrow ( ) prime ( ′ ) section sign ( ) tilde/swung dash ( ~ ) umlaut/diaeresis ( ) underscore/understrike ( _ ) vertical/pipe/broken bar ( |, )
Uncommon typography
asterism ( ⁂ ) index/fist ( ☞ ) therefore sign ( ∴ ) lozenge ( ◊ ) heart ( ♥ ) interrobang ( ‽ ) irony mark ( ؟ ) reference mark ( ※ ) sarcasm mark

In typography, an asterism is a rarely used symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle, used to call attention to a passage or to separate sub-chapters in a book. It is Unicode character U+2042: [⁂].

Often, this symbol is replaced with three, sometimes more, consecutive asterisks or dots. Otherwise, an extra space between paragraphs is used. An asterism or its analogue may be used in conjunction with the extra space to mark a smaller subdivision than a subchapter.

It should not be confused with ∴ (Unicode character U+2234), the similar looking therefore sign.

LaTeX

In LaTeX, a construct like the following can be used to define an \asterism command: \newcommand{\asterism}{\smash{% \raisebox{-.5ex}{% \setlength{\tabcolsep}{-.5pt}% \begin{tabular}{@{}cc@{}}% \multicolumn2c*\\[-2ex]*&*% \end{tabular}}}}

Punctuation is everything in written language other than the actual letters or numbers, including punctuation marks (listed at right), inter-word spaces, capitalization, and indentation.
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apostrophe ( ’  or  ' ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages written in the Latin alphabet.
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Brackets are punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text. With respect to computer science, the term is sometimes said to only strictly apply to the square or box type.
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colon (“:”) is a punctuation mark, consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.

Punctuation

Usage

As with many other punctuation marks, the usage of colon varies among languages and, for a given language, among
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For other uses, see Comma.

A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text.
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A dash is a punctuation mark. It is longer than a hyphen and is used differently.

Common dashes

There are several forms of dash, of which the most common are:
  glyph Unicode^[1] HTML^[2] HTML/XML^[3]
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Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from Greek ἔλλειψις 'omission') in printing and writing refers to the row of three full stops (… or . . .
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exclamation mark or exclamation point is a punctuation mark: ! It is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and generally marks the end of a sentence.
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Full Stop is an album released in 2000 by Annabelle Chvostek.

Track listing

1. "Icy blue"
2. "Messages get through"
3. "Body Work"
4. "Gray's Pussycat Edie"
5. "Chills"
6. "Blows me away"
7. "La La La"
8. "Booby Boo"
9. "That in itself"

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Guillemets, also called angle quotes, are line segments, pointed as if arrows (« or »), sometimes forming a complementary set of punctuation marks used as a form of quotation mark.
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hyphen ( ‐ ) is a punctuation mark. It is used both to join words and to separate syllables. It is often confused with the dashes ( –, —, ― ), which are longer and have different functions.
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question mark (?), also known as an interrogation point, question point, query,^[1] or eroteme, is a punctuation mark that replaces the full stop at the end of an interrogative sentence.
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Quotation marks or inverted commas (also informally quotes,^[1] and occasionally speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word.
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A semicolon (  ;  ) is a punctuation mark. The Italian printer Aldus Manutius the Elder established the practice of using the mark to separate words opposed in meaning and to mark off interdependent statements.
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Due to technical limitations, /. redirects here. You may be looking for Slashdot, the technology news web site.

A slash or stroke, /, is a punctuation mark.
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The solidus character U+2044, ⁄, also known as a shilling mark, is a punctuation mark; it is not found on standard keyboards.

The solidus is similar to the slash, a character found on standard keyboards.
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In writing, a space ( ) is any empty (non-written) zone between written sections. However, the term is usually used to refer to an empty zone used for interword separation (interword space) or separation between punctuation and words.
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An interpunct · is a small dot used for interword separation in ancient Latin script, being perhaps the first consistent visual representation of word boundaries in written language. The dot is vertically centered, e.g.
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Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques.
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For the magazine, see Ampersand magazine.

An ampersand (&), also commonly called an "and sign" is a logogram representing the conjunction "and." The symbol is a ligature of the letters in et, Latin for "and.
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asterisk (*), is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star (Latin astrum). Computer scientists and mathematicians often pronounce it as star (as, for example, in the A* search algorithm
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at sign (@, read aloud in English as "at") is a typographic symbol used as an abbreviation for "at" in accounting and commercial invoices, in statements such as "7 widgets @ $2 ea. = $14". More recently, the at symbol has become ubiquitous because of its use in e-mail addresses.
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The backslash ( \ ) is a typographical mark (glyph) used chiefly in computing. It was first introduced in 1960 by Bob Bemer.^[1] Sometimes called a reverse solidus, it is the mirror image of the common slash. It is also known as a slosh.
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In typography, a bullet is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a , like below, also known as the point of a bullet:

• This is the text of a list item. Notice the bullet to the left.
• This is a different list item, and so there is another bullet.

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Caret is the name for the symbol ^ in ASCII and some other character sets. Its Unicode code point is U+005E, and its ASCII code in hexadecimal is 5E. Strictly speaking, the caret character in common use is actually referred to in the Unicode standard as the "CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT"; the
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’ ' )
brackets ( ), [ ], , < >
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( ‒, –, —, ― )
ellipsis ( …, ...
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Former signs
₳ • ₢ • ₰ • ₯ • ₠ • ₣ • ℳ • ₧ • I/.

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The dollar sign or peso sign ($) is a symbol primarily used to indicate a unit of currency.
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’ ' )
brackets ( ), [ ], , < >
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( ‒, –, —, ― )
ellipsis ( …, ...
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Former signs
₳ • ₢ • ₰ • ₯ • ₠ • ₣ • ℳ • ₧ • I/.

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The pound sign ("₤" or later more commonly in the UK "£
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