On 9/7/2012 8:12 AM, Leo Broukhis wrote:
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Julian Bradfield
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 2012-09-04, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote:
My question is about the symbol before the name Уот. Has anyone seen
it before? Is it a NE arrow in a square or a spade? What does it mean?
Might it simply be an arbitrary dingbat used to separate the list of
associated saints from the list of revolutionary heroes? Old vs new
saints:-)
It might be; or its usage could have been borrowed from somewhere. How
common is it to use arbitrary dingbats for punctuation?
In book design it's relatively common to use some dingbats as dividers.
It's also not unheard of in more tabular listings. Even if the divider
is a more punctuation-like symbol (e.g. bullet, dash or whatever) if it
separates two lists it doesn't really function as a normal punctuation
character, the function of which is normally defined in the context of a
sentence.
A./
