[DCRM-L] signatures with *

[Kate Moriarty]

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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