On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: [...] (AMS has also got something called LOW ASTERSIK encoded in Unicode 3.2, but I really don't know about the usage, as I could not find much information about it in the original proposal. But the glyph used for that in the charts appears too lower than a math asterisk. Barbara?) the "low asterisk" has unicode value 204E; it is a regular-sized asterisk in approximately subscript position. there were two sources for this: - the sgml public entity sets; this is in the isotech set, "lowast" - the american physical society (aps) included it in their collection that became a part of the "math" submission to unicode this asterisk is not in the proper position to be used for a bullet; the only centered asterisk is at unicode 2217 (already noted), in the math area. but this doesn't necessarily preclude it from being used in a non-math context -- the unicode technical committee is very hesitant to add additional characters for which the shape is identical to something that's already present. there was no non-math centered asterisk included in the collection of symbols submitted for the stix effort. -- bb