an outstanding question is whether i want to duplicate the star for single‐word emphasis like ✧this, or only for ✧multi‐word emphasis✧ (which is the convention i follow with † dagger as a proper name mark, and which i think makes more sense for nonpaired bracketing punctuation)
i considered dotted cross ⁜, which i have used in the past, but font support is bad and it’s a pretty busy glyph
i considered ❇️ but it renders as an emoji these days, and can be quite busy when it doesn’t (as is ❈)
✧ is simple and conveys the sparkle without taking up too much space, and it’s easy to handwrite
why not just use asterisks you may ask
well raised asterisks are used for footnotes and low asterisks are too small
one of the questions of this keyboard design is what character i wanted to adopt for plain text emphasis and i decided on ✧
made some changes to my keyboard layout including swapping D and H
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