Re: Missing geometric shapes

From: Curtis Clark <lists_at_curtisclark.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:37:22 -0800

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. :-)

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