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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''bullet''' ( • ) is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a [[wiktionary:list|list]]. For example: <br />
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*Item 1<br />
*Item 2<br />
*Item 3<br />
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The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond, arrow etc., and typical word processors, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer, offer a wide selection of shapes and colours. Several regular symbols are conventionally used in plain text or ASCII-only text, such as '''*''' (asterisk), '''-''' (hyphen), '''.''' (Full stop|period), and even '''o''' (lowercase O). Of course, when writing by hand, bullets may be drawn in any style. <br />
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==Usage==<br />
Bullets are most often used in technical writing or reference works. Bulleted items – known as "bullet points" – may be short phrases, single sentences, or of paragraph length. <br />
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== Computer encoding and keyboard entry ==<br />
The standard circular bullet symbol (•) is at Unicode code point U+2022. In HTML, it may (when not inserted directly) be entered as <tt>&amp;bull;</tt> or <tt>&amp;#x2022;</tt>. However, semantics normally requires that bulleted items be achieved with the appropriate use of the <tt>&lt;li&gt;</tt> tag inside an unordered list (<tt>&lt;ul&gt;</tt>). Unicode also defines a triangular bullet unicode (U+2023) and a "white bullet" ◦ (U+25E6), as well as other styles. <br />
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In the [[Windows]] encoding, the standard circular bullet character is at 149 (decimal). On most Windows systems, it can be entered as the [[Alt codes|Alt Code]] <tt>Alt+0149</tt> (press and hold Alt while typing 0149 on the numeric keypad). <tt>Alt+7</tt> generates a • (midpoint – sometimes called periodcentered – which is often used as a bullet point). <br />
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On [[Mac OS X]], pressing <tt>Option+8</tt> inserts a bullet, and pressing <tt>Shift+Option+9</tt> inserts the similar [[interpunct]] (·).<br />
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[[GTK+]] applications on [[Linux]] support the [[Unicode input|ISO 14755-conformant hex unicode input system]]; hold Control and Shift while tapping U, then type 2022 and press Enter to insert a • or hold Control and Shift while tapping U, then type B7 and press Enter to insert a midpoint.</div>Djehuti