[DCRM-L] signatures with *

[Mike Garabedian]

Someone ought to tell this lazy researcher (me) when the above-the-baseline
asterisk was first used to direct readers to footnotes.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Noble, Richard <Richard_Noble at brown.edu>wrote:

>  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 *
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> Charles,
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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.
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> -Kate
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> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Mike Garabedian <m.garabedian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> My point is that even though * is above x-height, technically it's not
> superscript,right?
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> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Charles F Tremper <cftrempe at syr.edu>
> wrote:
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> Having recently encountered several books with gatherings marked with * , I
> am unsure of the preferred way to represent this.
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> While the character is available, it displays as a superscript.  Is that
> acceptable, or is a descriptive term in brackets the way to go?
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> Thanks
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> Charles F. Tremper
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