[Editors] Termination icon

[William T G Litant]

Bingo! Tom wins the prize!! That's it.

"30," (which was a telegraphers' signal for end of dispatch) was how 
we used to end stories, but I was referring specifically to icons 
(little airplanes, a black dot, etc.) Thanks to all.

Best,
Bill

At 10:47 -0400 9/19/07, Tom Pixton wrote:
>I call it a finial, a term I learned from T.J. Lyons, a famous 
>old-school Boston typographer with whom I worked in the 80s.
>
>On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:36 AM, William T G Litant wrote:
>
>Dear all:
>
>I'm trying to remember the editor's/printer's term for an icon placed
>at the end of an article to indicate its termination. Can anyone
>recall? I think we discussed this a few years ago, but I can't recall
>the answer.
>
>Best,
>Bill
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