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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>That doesn’t matter, it’s the character itself that’s important. Take paragraph marks, which are used to mark the beginning of new paragraphs in text, but that doesn’t mean they’re any less paragraph marks when used to sign gatherings. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hal Cain<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 31 October, 2011 18:29<br><b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Asterism<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:53:50 +0000<br>From: Robert Maxwell <<a href="mailto:robert_maxwell@byu.edu">robert_maxwell@byu.edu</a>><br>Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Asterism<br>To: DCRM Revision Group List <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>Message-ID: <702855B1CD027B478FC15F68DD21CFEF05BF99@Peas2.byu.local><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>I have to agree with Richard. This evidently useful term appears to be news to the experienced rare materials catalogers here, including, perhaps, even you, Deborah (at least I got that impression from your first message)-if none of us had ever heard of it before this dcrm-l exchange, how can we expect users of the catalog to know what we are talking about?<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The commonest Australian general dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary, gives meanings only in astronomy and crystallography. A definition search in Google elicits: "<span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>A group of three asterisks (***) drawing attention to following text." That doesn't seem to me to be exactly what Deborah is talking about.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hal Cain<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Melbourne, Australia<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:hegcain@gmail.com">hegcain@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>