Editing Note (typography) (section)

== Numbering and symbols ==
In English-language [[typesetting]], footnotes and endnotes are usually indicated with a [[superscript]] number appended to the pertinent block of text. Typographic symbols are sometimes used instead of numbers, with their traditional ordering being:

# [[Asterisk]] (*)
# [[Dagger (mark)|Dagger]] (†)
# [[Dagger (mark)|Crossed dagger]] (‡)
# [[Section sign]] (§)
# [[Vertical bar]] (‖)
# [[Pilcrow]] (¶)<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Bringhurst |year=2005 |title=The Elements of Typographic Style |edition=3.1 |location=Point Roberts, WA |publisher=Hartley and Marks |pages=68–69 |quote=But beyond the&nbsp;... double dagger, this order is not familiar to most readers, and never was.}}</ref>

Additional typographic characters used to identify notes include the [[number sign]] (#), the Greek letter [[Delta (letter)|delta]] (Δ), the diamond-shaped [[Lozenge (shape)|lozenge]] (◊), the [[Arrow (symbol)|downward arrow]] (↓), and the [[manicule]] (☞), a hand with an extended index finger.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/papers/FOR_2005_04_001.pdf |title=Toward a History of the Manicule |date=2005-04-01 |access-date=2013-06-28 |website=The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters |last=Sherman |first=William H. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008235230/http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/papers/FOR_2005_04_001.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-08}}</ref><ref>Many of these symbols are used, for example, in [[John Bach McMaster]], ''History of the People of the United States''</ref>