Fw: Inverted asterism

[Giacomo Catenazzi]

On 30 Mar 2023 20:12, Marius Spix via Unicode wrote:
> You can already represent this with U+002A + U+204E + U+002A: *⁎*
> There are many examples, where asterisks are used as ornaments. 

I do not think that in this case this character is used as ornaments. As 
in many scientific books (catalogue like), they uses characters to split 
different parts (e.g. to distinguish description, sources/bibliography, 
coding information, personal notes). Maybe like we have on many modern 
ICT books, with "information", "warning", "attention" icons before a 
paragraph.

So semantically it is part of "presentation" not on "pure text", and 
further: at paragraph level (unlike m-dashes).

Note: often such characters may be recycled (one way or the other way) 
with some meaning in text, and I would not be surprised if it is used 
also on some text. if I will have time, I'll look some old 
encyclopaedias or floras.

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