[DCRM-L] signatures with *

[Noble, Richard]

Do go ahead and use the asterisk. It's a standard character, frequently
enough encountered in signatures to be unremarkable, and it requires
accurate transcription. Those of us who speak siggish are unfazed by
superscripts adjacent to little stars. The asterisk is not itself a
superscript, even if it floats above the baseline-that's a matter of
(typo)graphic design.

 

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Kate Moriarty
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:39 PM
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] signatures with *

 

Charles,

I've always gone ahead and used the * character even though it looks
like a superscript (though from Mike's response it sounds like it may
not be) and looks a bit odd preceding a superscript number. I've
interpreted DCRM(B) 7B9.2 as allowing the use of the character since the
character it exists, but that may be because I've gotten used to
automatically reading asterisks in signature statements as baseline
characters, not superscripts. 

-Kate

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Mike Garabedian
<m.garabedian at gmail.com> wrote:

This certainly isn't DCRM SOP, but I just tried an experiment in
MS-Word, typing two asterisks, then formatting the second one as
superscript. What obtained was a smaller asterisk oriented slightly
closer to the ascender line.

My point is that even though * is above x-height, technically it's not
superscript,right? 

 

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Charles F Tremper <cftrempe at syr.edu>
wrote:

Having recently encountered several books with gatherings marked with *
, I am unsure of the preferred way to represent this.

While the character is available, it displays as a superscript.  Is that
acceptable, or is a descriptive term in brackets the way to go?

 

Thanks 

 

Charles F. Tremper

Catalogue Librarian

Special Collections Research Center

Syracuse University Library

(315) 443-9775

 

 

 

 




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