Comments | charisma: Interrobanging

charisma

Interrobanging

Jun 01, 2008 22:12

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dirty word theater, fun, writing, punctuation

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charisma June 2 2008, 04:32:59 UTC

The interrobang is not a standard punctuation mark. Few modern typefaces or fonts include a glyph for the interrobang character. It is at Unicode code point U+203D. It can be used in HTML documents with ‽ or ‽, although the second form has poor support in common web browsers. The Interrobang can be used in some word processors with the alt code ALT+8253 when working in a font that supports the interrobang, or using an operating system that performs font substitution.

allah_sulu June 2 2008, 15:23:48 UTC

Few modern typefaces or fonts include a glyph for the interrobang character.

So it helps to try to make sure you're using a font that does. I use this code for all of my interrobanging needs:

‽

wellowned June 2 2008, 07:03:24 UTC

from wikipedia: & # 8 2 5 3

take out the spaces and it shows up in html like so: ‽

quietdrive June 2 2008, 03:20:44 UTC

oh my goodness gracious I love typography

twilightjoy June 2 2008, 03:28:04 UTC

Okay, I just changed my sig on one of the message boards I go to from じ to an interrobang. (This particular board only permits a single-character sig.)

wellowned June 2 2008, 07:02:37 UTC

‽

‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽

god. that's a really, really nifty sign. :D

*interrobangs you*

re: The Houses at the End of Taylor Street oregonnerd June 4 2008, 18:53:20 UTC

This is intended to be horror/humor and for some reason I think you could help a little with the witch and her hubby. Like me, you know too many words and like to use them (can you tell I've been 'talking' with Mike Resnick?). There are eleven houses. The witch and hubby live at the entrance. It's partially modelled on where I live. I have just actually started writing it. I bet you just couldn't guess what my username is at gmail.com.
--Glenn
It's meant to be a fast, non-depth write, fun to write and fun to read, novel length. If we can keep it to this kind of sentence there's a bare possibility of a kind word from Mike. (You can Google him. I still am wondering why he replied to my fan mail. He's only the most prolific author to date in science fiction, and the best seller.)

Re: re: The Houses at the End of Taylor Street charisma June 4 2008, 21:43:14 UTC

Neat!