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Asterism
In typography, an asterism, from the Greek astēr ('star'), is a rarely used and nearly obsolete symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle (⁂). It is used to "indicate minor breaks in text," call attention to a passage, or to separate sub-chapters in a book. It is Unicode character U+2042 ⁂ asterism (HTML: ⁂). In Windows it is possible to use the key combination ALT+8258 to produce the character, but it has very limited support in the default fonts (Arial Unicode MS / Lucida Sans Unicode / MS Mincho).
Often, asterism's symbol is replaced with three consecutive asterisks (called a dinkus), more than three asterisks, or three or more dots. Otherwise, an extra space between paragraphs is used. An asterism or its analogue may be used in conjunction with the extra space to mark a smaller subdivision than a subchapter.
Asterism can also be used to mean 'untitled' or author or title withheld, for example, some editions of Album for the Young by composer Robert Schumann (no.'s 21, 26, and 30). Besides originating from the same word, "the rarely used asteriscus (܍), which Isidore of Seville (p. 48) says 'is put in place of something that has been omitted so as to call attention to the omission'," also resembles the asterism.
The asterism should not be confused with the similar looking therefore sign—U+2234 ∴ therefore (html: ∴∴)—which is composed of three round dots rather than asterisks.
Catchword
A Catchword is a word placed at the foot of a handwritten or printed page, meant to be bound along with other pages in a book. The catchword anticipates the first word of the following page; meant to help the bookbinder/printer to ensure that the leaves were bound in the correct order, or that the pages were set up in the press correctly.
The image below is of a catchword in action, at home in a text from the middle ages.
A catchword live action shot! Here, our catchword is cleverly disguised as the last three letters of a divided word, in a world away in the bottom-right corner, as if to say, come on man, use me.
Catchword,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchword.....
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