[DCRM-L] Asterism

[Deborah J. Leslie]

This is going around on facebook just now: there's a name for the
pyramid of three asterisks: asterism.  We can use it in signature
statements instead of trying to describe it, a la "[three asterisks in a
pyramid]" .

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-
knew-existed 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_%28typography%29 

 

Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare
Library

djleslie at folger.edu <mailto:djleslie at folger.edu>  | 202.675-0369 |
www.folger.edu

 

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