On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Thank you; I haven't seen that particular dingbat used before and thought that it might have an established meaning, e.g. like in dictionaries where various symbols separate idiomatic (◊) or erroneous (¶) uses. Leo
