Talk:Asterism (typography)

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What's the name for the symbols in written logic that look just like this? Should this article link to them? Tzarius 01:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Do you refer to the 3-dots meaning "therefore" [∴] and its partner "because" ]∵] --Mdwyer 16:54, 2005 August 31 (UTC)

This site has reasonable seeming references indicating that the inverted asterism has nothing to do with "because". http://members.aol.com/jeff570/set.html


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[edit] Upside down

What's the name of the upside-down asterism? I would propose the name Msiretsa. --Abdull 13:39, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Um... yeah. I do not see a unicode entry for the upside down version. Why IS it upside down? I'm going to replace it on the article so it at least looks a little more uniform --Mdwyer 16:54, 2005 August 31 (UTC)

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[edit] Amiguity

The article is ambiguous about whether asterisms separate subchapters, divisions smaller than subchapters, or both. — Hippietrail 17:58, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Asterism Usage

Nowadays, which fonts contain the asterism? DaemonDivinus 23:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Example?

Can somebody add an example to this page? it needs one, it's sort of hard to see what it's supposed to do. --Awiseman 04:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

As far as I understand, something like this:
He got hit and was knocked unconscious...
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He woke up in a dark alley...
I've seen the *** version used in a few books I've read. Most notably by Wilbur Smith - 62.20.157.245 19:38, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Forest

71.234.222.0 (talk · contribs) removed the following text:

It should not be confused with the similar-looking Chinese character 森, meaning "forest", composed of three "tree" radicals 木 in the same formation.

Edit summary was (When will you ever be able to confuse this with a Chinese Character?)

After reading about the Japanese versions of Animal Crossing games, for one. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 06:51, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Why would anoyone think there was an asterism in the Animal Crossing article? One would have to be rather dense to confuse the two. Do Asterisms exist in Chinese Script? Because of it's obscure status in Roman script, I doubt it. So then, where would you possible encounter both to confuse them? It isn't as if someone would assume that sort of thing. It was really quite unnecessary. JRNorbergé 07:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)