Glossary Term Definition
A typographic symbol used with the alphabet but lacking a place in the alphabetical order, such as diacritics, the asterisk, dagger, pilcrow, comma and parentheses.
Definition
A typographic symbol used with the alphabet but lacking a place in the alphabetical order. Diacritics such as the acute, umlaut, circumflex and caron are analphabetics. So are the asterisk, dagger, pilcrow, comma and parentheses.
Source
No access — Robert Bringhurst — p. 321:
A typographic symbol used with the alphabet but lacking a place in the alphabetical order.