Reuben & Rachel

[Mark A Mandel]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, James A. Landau wrote:

#Here's a technical term I never met before---or maybe it's a nonce usage.
#"dingbat".
#Quotation is "The next 4096 codes are for punctuation, mathematical
#operators, technical symbols, shapes, patterns, and even dingbats (decorative
#characters that can represent religious symbols, smiling faces, chess pieces,
#and so on)."  A set of such characters is available under Windows as the font
#called "Wingdings".

I've known of that one for a long time, but I can't give a citation for
it. Anyway, it's certainly not a nonce usage.

-- Mark A. Mandel