Charles,<br><br>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>
<br>-Kate<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Mike Garabedian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.garabedian@gmail.com">m.garabedian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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>
<br>My point is that even though * is above x-height, technically it's not superscript,right? <br><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Charles F Tremper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cftrempe@syr.edu" target="_blank">cftrempe@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Having recently encountered several books with gatherings marked with * , I am unsure of the preferred way to represent this.</div>
<div>While the character is available, it displays as a superscript. Is that acceptable, or is a descriptive term in brackets the way to go?</div>
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