textdagger
Represents a dagger symbol commonly used for footnotes, references, or to indicate death dates in biographical texts.
Overview
Serves as a versatile typographical mark with several established academic and editorial uses:
- Functions as a secondary footnote marker when asterisks are already in use
- Indicates death dates in biographical or historical writing
- Marks text passages requiring editorial attention or special notes
- Appears in critical apparatus of scholarly texts to denote variations or annotations
Particularly common in humanities disciplines, academic publishing, and professional documentation where multiple levels of annotation are needed.
Examples
Marking a footnote in mathematical text, commonly used as a secondary reference mark after asterisk.
f(x) = x^2 \text{\textdagger}Indicating a special condition or exception in an equation.
P(x) = \begin{cases} x + 1 & x > 0 \text{\textdagger} \\ x - 1 & x \leq 0 \end{cases}Marking a special value or critical point in a mathematical expression.
x_c = 3.14159\text{\textdagger}