On 2012-11-06 4:11 PM, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
That said, I do think it would be reasonable and appropriate to encode the half-stars. There's no such thing as "plain text" on paper (everything in print is formatted somehow), but star ratings are really common in tables that contain nothing else but text, etc. I guess the plain stars have more support, being dingbats in printers' cases since long ago, but these half-stars do feel "texty" to me, anyway.
It's just a glyph variant of ½. :-) -- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark Biological Sciences +1 909 869 4140 Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona CA 91768
