Can anyone help out?

[Sourows]

I don't know what the symbol on page 91 under both the holding your breath, and digging section in the basic book 3rd edition. it kinda looks like a Y with a = through it. Like the yen symbol.

[adm]

SJGames uses the Yen sign for foot noting, but a quick look in my copy shows no foot notes, however my 1999 edition has had white out applied and corrections applied so that you have X's, like so;

4 cy: A grave. 6’× 3’× 6’ deep. 5 hours,
20 minutes.

My assumption would be typos, but the 1999 edition is not listed on the errata page, here;

http://www.sjgames.com/errata/gurps/

[Andrew Hackard]

Buckle up, kiddos. This will be a ride.

What you've got there is a yen symbol ¥. It has no meaning in GURPS unless you happen to be talking about yen, and even then, GURPS would prefer that you use its standard currency symbol, $.

However. If you select the font including the ¥ symbol and change it to the Symbol font, the ¥ magically becomes the multiplication cross. So that's what we did or were supposed to do when we were working on GURPS books -- find all the ¥ and change them to Symbol font. It's a line item on the checklist, even.

We edited our standard font for 4E so that typing ¥ got you the cross directly, because we never use the ¥ glyph and we use the multi-cross a LOT. But that didn't translate back to 3E books, which use a different text font, and it sounds like those conversions got missed. Oops.

Edited to add: adm is not correct on the footnote explanation. We never used ¥ to mark footnotes, precisely because they could get converted to crosses. We used asterisks (single and double), the † dagger, the ‡ diesis or "double dagger", and occasionally other characters like the ¶ pilcrow.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

We used asterisks (single and double), the † dagger, the ‡ diesis or "double dagger", and occasionally other characters like the ¶ pilcrow.

That's called a pilcrow? At Academic Press we just called it "paragraph," and we called the one that's two overwritten esses "section." I suppose that has a technical name too?

(Some years ago I learned about a fanzine devoted to stories of the Kirk/Spock genre that was called "virgule". . . .)

[adm]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

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Edited to add: adm is not correct on the footnote explanation. ...

I sit corrected. :)

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by whswhs

we called the one that's two overwritten esses "section." I suppose that has a technical name too?

Sometimes called the "silcrow", probably by analogy with the pilcrow. Though I kind of like the Latin phrase for which it's an abbreviation, and which gave it the double-S shape: "signum sectionis". Which is to say "section sign" :)

[Hide]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

Buckle up, kiddos. This will be a ride (...) the ¶ pilcrow.

*punctuation intensifies*

Originally Posted by whswhs

(...) and we called the one that's two overwritten esses "section." (...)

That symbol would be: §

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

"signum sectionis". Which is to say "section sign" :)

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Hide

That symbol would be: §

I imagine that most people who have a name for it would recognize it as the Simoleon, the currency from Sim City/The Sims.