Talk:Bullet (typography)

message: This seems like a pretty cool new invention; would somebody research it and write up the history of the symbol? Thanks. David McCabe 03:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the book What Do You Care What Other People Think, Richard Feynman recounts bullet points as a specific curiosity of NASA presentations during his time working on the Challenger disaster investigation. Since Feynman was very familiar with academic writing, at least within theoretical physics, this strongly suggests that bullet points were not yet mainstream during the late eighties. Although this conclusion is borderline original research, the account by Feynman himself seems useful.Christian Ankerstjerne (talk) 13:30, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the bullet 

message: ...including, but not limited to:
Not differing between the bullet character and characters used in a similar
role (notably in lists) appropriately.
Not treating the bullet character and bullet lists sufficiently separately.
Being Windows centric.
Containing undue instructions (WP is not an instruction manual).
Generally, being poorly written.
I suggest a complete re-write.
Is it acceptable to have a bullet-ted list with only one item?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.76.190 (talk) 22:15, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article has numerous problems... 

message: I've also heard people refer to bullets as "berger dots" (or maybe it's spelled "burger dot"), but can't find any reliable sources for this.  Can anyone corroborate this?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 20:56, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berger dot? 

message: My office in Canada says we should not even call them "bullet points".  Their style manual says "round points" and there might be other names.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.241.130.86 (talk) 12:43, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political Correctness 

message: There are other ways bullet points (and bulleted lists) are used, especially nested lists to designate a hierarchy, that aren't mentioned in this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:59EB:C600:1408:F01D:7D12:A792 (talk) 22:32, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you give a source which describes that? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:22, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional uses 

message: Tainome redirects here, but there is no mention of the word in the article. The Unicode code chart for the Geometric Shapes block mentions tainome as an alternative name for U+25C9 (◉), but gives no explanation beyond “Japanese, a kind of bullet”. And if tainome means ◉, then they shouldn’t redirect to different articles, as they currently do. --Zundark (talk) 08:48, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, ◉ points to a disambiguation page, circled dot, so that is not a sensible target. Its section on this symbol just lists its uses. (It didn't have tainome, it does now .) So I guess the best solution is to mention it briefly in this article and hope that someone develops it. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 10:25, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: very sorry. I know very little about this area, so I can't comment on it. Please note. Wikidate47 (talk) 13:35, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tainome 

message: The page currently indicates: “BULLET OPERATOR for use in mathematical notation primarily as a dot product instead of interpunct”. Where does this come from? This does not seem to be recommended by Unicode. Indeed interpunct (I suppose, U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT) is not to be used as a mathematical operator, but U+22C5 ⋅ DOT OPERATOR seems to be appropriate for the dot product, not BULLET OPERATOR. Though I wonder what BULLET OPERATOR is supposed to be used for. OlivierMiR (talk) 16:51, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The Unicode consortium doesn't recommend anything. It just records what was believed by members to be the primary use at the time. As to what the difference in meaning is between two marks that look pretty much identical, maybe talk: mathematical operator might advise? Why, for a start, did the same (apparently) mark need two codepoints? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:55, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode 

message: It seems to be non-existent on the Swiss keyboard for Mac/Windows. 
I wonder why that is. Stjohn1970 (talk) 12:06, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swiss keyboard layout