Asterisk and Obelisk [was: Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:01:22AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Mark Allums writes:
True, although, I don't think they need a PBX, just something like
Asterix?

Asterix is a PBX.

Asterix is a comics character. Asterisk (*) is a PBX. Asterix is
s/ks$/x/ to Asterisk, as this is the first character used for for
comments. The second character is a dagger, or an obelisk (†), and thus
Asterix' sidekick is Obelix.

Or a different example:

cat <<EOF >article.tex
\documentclass{article}
\title{The\thanks{Asterisk} Title\thanks{Obelisk}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
EOF

pdflatex article.tex
xpdf article.pdf

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
And don't forget: http://web.archive.org/web/20080101030041/http://mobilix.org/

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