Dot

[Thomas Paikeday]

"Centered dot" reminds me of the dot used to show syllabication in
dictionaries. This dot is centered in the x-height of letters. A bullet,
which is at a higher level (center of the capital letters), is sometimes
used instead because centering in the x-height requires special
programming. I dispensed with this kind of centering in my last
dictionary as too much trouble and used the regular dot (period)
instead. I wonder if dictionary users care very much.
TMP.

"Baker, John" wrote:
>
>         How's this:  >>The "and" operator is often represented by a centered
> dot (.),<<
>
>         From Glossary of Computer Engineering and Programming Terminology
> (Partial list from BRL Report 1115, March 1961), online at
>
>