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In contrast with their handwritten use, early printed manicules appeared in the main text, pointing outward toward corresponding printed margin notes. Later, beginning in the sixteenth century, the manicule came to be used as a decorative element on the title pages of books, alongside other so-called
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Its popularity declined toward the end of the nineteenth century, perhaps due to its oversaturation in advertising. By the 1890s, it was rarely used unless for ironic effect. Sherman (2005) argues that as the symbols became standardized, they were no longer reflective of individuality in comparison
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in Spain, and became common in the 14th and 15th centuries in Italy with some very elaborate with shading and artful cuffs. Some were playful and elaborate, but others were as simple as "two squiggly strokes suggesting the barest sketch of a pointing hand" and thus quick to draw.
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The manicule attained a great degree of popularity in the nineteenth century, particularly in advertisements. At this time, they also became more visually diverse, with larger and more complex fists being created. They were also widely used in signage, with some
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he printed with
Johannes Schabeler. As with other typographic conventions this was taken from scribal practice, carefully drawn hands pointing to a new paragraph being found in early 12th century (Spanish) manuscripts. It is also known as a fist, hand, or
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The symbol originates in scribal tradition of the medieval and
Renaissance period, appearing in the margin of manuscripts to mark corrections or notes. The earliest book known to include manicules is the 1086
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2.0 allows the "cursor" property to be set to "hand" or "pointer" to intentionally change the mouse cursor to this symbol when hovering over an object; "move" may produce a closed fisted hand. Many
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This type ornament has a long history, the printed outline of a hand being used as a paragraph mark by, among other early printers, Huss at Lyons in 1484 in the edition of Paulus
Florentinus's
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For most of its history, the mark has been inconsistently referred to by a variety of names. William H. Sherman, in the first dedicated study of the mark, uses the term
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Early printers using a type representing the manicule included
Mathias Huss and Johannes Schabeler in Lyons in their 1484 edition of Paulus Florentinus's
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Roman numerals, typographic leaves and pointing hands : some notes on their origin, history, and contemporary use
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Unicode 7.0 (2014) added several more indices to the
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, sourced from the
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tableaux to identify the optimal output in a candidate of generated possibilities from a given input.
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having relief-printed or even fully three-dimensional physical manifestations of pointing hands. The
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were used for similar purposes. Less commonly, in earlier centuries the pointing hand acted as a
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In modern printing, it was used as a standard typographical symbol marking notes. The
American
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used the symbol as a form of margin on the first line of every paragraph in his novel
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printed documents, eventually falling out of popularity by the nineteenth century.
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has also used a pointing hand as a graphical indicator for its "
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Optimality Theory: Constraint
Interaction in Generative Grammar
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Interaction in Generative Grammar
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Signpost with pointing hand in a caricature published in 1773
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1501:Collection of photographs of manicules on Flickr
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1389:Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall (2001). "digit 2.".
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41:question marks, boxes, or other symbols
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1455:Prince, Alan; Smolensky, Paul (2004).
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929:RIGHT THIRD WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX
430:American essayist and cultural critic
406:In linguistics, the symbol is used in
187:being mishearings or conflations, and
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939:Five Unicode manicule characters are
901:LEFT THIRD WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX
629:Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
397:Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking
2526: ⟨ ⟩
1371:"UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences"
794:BLACK RIGHT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
766:SIDEWAYS BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
738:SIDEWAYS WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX
710:WHITE DOWN POINTING LEFT HAND INDEX
687:WHITE RIGHT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
214:Manicule from the fifteenth century
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1479:"Toward a History of the Manicule"
1215:Boardley, John (27 January 2020).
878:BLACK DOWN POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
850:SIDEWAYS BLACK DOWN POINTING INDEX
822:SIDEWAYS WHITE DOWN POINTING INDEX
780:BLACK LEFT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
752:SIDEWAYS BLACK LEFT POINTING INDEX
724:SIDEWAYS WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX
673:WHITE LEFT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
659:WHITE DOWN POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
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23:Symbol depicting a pointing finger
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1359:. Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
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864:BLACK UP POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
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808:SIDEWAYS WHITE UP POINTING INDEX
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413:American science fiction writer
238:After the popularization of the
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294:Breviarum totius juris canonici
288:Breviarum totius juris canonici
1426:. W. W. Norton & Company.
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1393:(2nd ed.). p. 141.
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1309:Pynchon, Thomas (2012).
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1075:(historic text pointer)
594:WHITE UP POINTING INDEX
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270:Two manicules drawn by
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1221:I Love Typography
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