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Index (typography)
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The symbol ☞ is a rare punctuation mark, called an index or fist. This symbol is now rarely used, but was formerly included in lists of the standard punctuation marks. Its typical use is as a bullet-like symbol to direct the reader’s attention to important text, having roughly the same meaning as the word “attention” or “note”. Some encyclopedias use it in articles to cross-reference ☞other articles.
The mark is sometimes used in web designs to indicate an active or selected hyper link. In linguistics, the symbol is also often used in Optimality Theoretic tableau to identify the winner in a candidate set. Many video games made in the 80s and 90s, primarily text-based adventure games, use an index as a cursor.
