[bksvol-discuss] Re: asterisks in nonfiction? WAS: asterisks white space? and italics

  • From: jlc <whoschu@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:14:44 -0700 (PDT)

I proofread mostly nonfiction books and I use asterisks quite a bit, especially 
to set off tables or graphics (captions) from the text.




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>From: Charisma <wishfulfish@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 11:43 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] asterisks in nonfiction? WAS: asterisks white space? 
>and italics
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>Lissi wrote:
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>> put spaces between three asterisks used to separate blocks of
>> text as when they are used to show time passage or the start of a new scene
>> or point of view character.
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>Are there reasons we might need to use asterisks in non-fiction?
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>Charisma
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