The classical plural of diesis is dieses. That is, the ‡ character at codepoint U+2021 DOUBLE DAGGER, also known as theĭiesis or double obelisk. That is, the † character at codepoint U+2020 DAGGER, also known as the obelisk, obelus, or long cross. Bringhurst goes on to say “But beyond the asterisk, dagger 3, and double dagger 4, this order is not familiar to most readers, and never was.” OED: “A word inserted between the lines or in the margin as an explanatory equivalent of a foreign or otherwise difficult word in the text hence applied to a simliar explanatory rendering of a word given in a glossary or dictionary.”Īs enumerated on pp 68–69 of Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style (version 3.2) Hartley and Marks, 2008.
When using superscripts to indicate a footnote, do these fall inside or outside adjacent punctuation? If there is an answer, is that answer applicable worldwide, or just to specific regions or publishers?ĭoes it matter what the particular punctuation is, including such punctuation as commas, colons, parentheses and other brackets, periods, and quotation marks?ĭoes it matter whether the footnote applies to just one gloss 1, or to an entire phrase in toto?ĭoes the answer change if, instead of using instead of numeric footnotes, you use the traditional sequence of symbols (*, †, ‡, §, ‖, and ¶) 2 ?
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