symbol

A small glyph set in a line of prose, drawn at the size and colour of the text around it. Written !symbol:tick(): name is the implicit attribute, so !symbol(name: tick) is the same thing spelled out. Three kinds of thing are in the set: the marks a piece of work is marked with (tick, cross, dash, question, star, warning, info); the nouns a worded problem is about — people and places (person, people, house, business, school), everyday things (book, clock, money, car), science and nature (tree, leaf, drop, sun, bolt, flask, globe, lightbulb), and direction or change (arrow-right, arrow-left, arrow-up, arrow-down, rise, fall); and the four card suits (spade, heart, diamond, club), which a probability question reaches for. heart is the suit and the liking both. Every symbol has a spoken reading, so an internote read aloud keeps the sentence.