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color:blue'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>RICHARD NOBLE :
RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN UNIVERSITY<br>
PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-2093 : RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU </span><span
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dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kate
Moriarty<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] signatures with *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Charles,<br>
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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. <br>
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-Kate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Mike Garabedian <<a
href="mailto:m.garabedian@gmail.com">m.garabedian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<br>
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My point is that even though * is above x-height, technically it's not
superscript,right? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Charles F Tremper <<a
href="mailto:cftrempe@syr.edu" target="_blank">cftrempe@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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recently encountered several books with gatherings marked with * , I am unsure
of the preferred way to represent this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>While
the character is available, it displays as a superscript. Is that
acceptable, or is a descriptive term in brackets the way to go?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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F. Tremper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Kate S. Moriarty, MSW, MLS | Rare Book Catalog Librarian |
Pius XII Memorial Library | <br>
Saint Louis University | 3650 Lindell Blvd . | St. Louis, MO
63108 | (314) 977-3098 (tel) | (314) 977-3108 (fax)
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