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Generically, it's called a "fleuron". Some specifically call it an "aldus leaf". A fleuron is essentially an ornamental typographic character. The Aldus Leaf being a commonly used one. More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleuron_(typography)

Method one - works with any shape. Create a no-fill, no-stroke rectangle and place a $ sign in the middle of it. $ sign must be on top of the rectangle. The amount of space between the $ sign and the rectangle edges will determine the spacing between the repeated $ signs. Drag all that to the Brush panel and choose Pattern Brush when asked. Then click OK ...

Another approach to this particular situation is to use a relatively obscure (in my opinion, anyway) feature of the Transform Effect. It's under Effect > Distort and Transform > Transform and not under Object > Transform. The Transform effect doesn't create copies of your object, so it's light on memory. It is also a live effect, so if you change ...

Window > Symbols (Shift+Ctrl+F11) It's probably already open in a tab by your Swatches and Brushes Then you can just select your objects as a group and drag them right onto that window and it will prompt you to make them into a Symbol as a Graphic or Movie Clip.

Make sure you've looked at the ticks and crosses available in Arial Unicode MS, Wingdings and Wingdings 2. Can be difficult to find in Character Map though, as they don't appear at consistent points in the Unicode table. These are not free fonts of course, but given you're producing an image sprite rather than embedding, this is not an issue.

Edit: Anything depending on unicode characters depends on a) what characters exist in the fonts available to the client and b) what characters and unicode features are supported by the browser. Both are generally pretty bad. This is an example of something that works in Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari... but not Firefox which mangles these characters) on a ...

No. It depends entirely on the font. Some fonts have the superscripting built in, others provide you with relatively full height glyphs. Among those that are predesigned, there are varying levels of optimization for varying point sizes. That last point is critical. The principal considerations are: Make sure the glyphs are legible (some go with the ...

No. You can't have multiple, differing, iterations of the same symbol. You can use the Symbol tools, like the Symbol Stainer, but that won't allow specific color assignments within any symbol. If you need different colored symbols, you need different symbols. You can easily swap symbols. Simply select a symbol on the artboard and then use the Control bar ...

I'm not sure of a general library, but this is the symbol for centre of gravity in engineering. You also see it used on crash test dummies and vehicles, where apparently it's a danger symbol.

It sounds like you're referring to accent marks, also called diacritics. The link has a very thorough list. Each font has certain accented characters built into it. You can see them through a font management program (I don't know what system you're using). It will present you with a sheet of every character available in the font. If the one you want isn't ...

I think the term you may be looking for is diacritic: a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. ... Some diacritical marks, such as the acute ( ´ ) and grave ( ` ) are often called accents. Diacritical marks may appear above or below a letter, or in some other position such as within the letter or between two letters. As the Wikipedia quote ...

[...] what is an effective research process for looking into the existing meanings of a symbol you might be using in a drawing or icon? If you don't recognize the symbol and you can't easily locate it using methods like Googling for "symbol" or "symbols" or using other reference material you have available, then perhaps the symbol has no traditional, ...

Not by applying styles to the symbols themselves. THe entire purpose of symbols is that they are identical elements. You can duplicate a symbol, edit the specific internal elements and apply styles to those. Then use that new symbol. You would need a separate symbol for each different internal appearance.

This might work: Turn each object independently into a symbol. Select them all (the bounding box Re-size them all together so they are closer to the center point (as you indicated, each object will get re-sized) With all the symbols still selected, right click and select "Reset Transformation". The symbols will recover their original size but stay in the ...

↺ ↔ ⇋ 🔃 🔁 This question is really merely a matter of looking through the tables until you find a symbol which is acceptable. Then ensuring you have a font available which supports that character. On my system, unfortunately half of the above are not supported (at least not in my currently active ...

↻ ↱↲ ↷ over reversed ↷ (you can get that in HTML & CSS3, alternative characters would be ⃕) ⃝ with ^ and reversed ^ put onto the circle to simulate arrows (again: requires CSS3 to mix&match these) ѻ and hope noone will look too close ;) Sorry, but there isn't a character that matches exactly your requirements.

So here is the work around I figured out, that I think I'm going to use: Take linked image and embed it (using the Links palette fly-out menu). Create the symbol with the embedded image. Use the symbol throughout your document. When it's time to update the embedded file, go to the original linked file and edit that first (in my case, it's a .png file that ...

You answered your first question with your second question... to save memory. Linked raster images can change outside the application. If a linked image were to change, The effort required to update every symbol containing that link could be astronomical. And in many cases would cause so much effort that the application couldn't handle it. Imagine a ...

Such page references are most commonly contained in parentheses, as @user568458 alluded to in the comments. This can change with the context. Here are two examples from my camera manual: In Auto Exposure mode, exposure is also locked in this case (page 54). and With a moving subject, the camera ... as long as the shutter release button is kept ...

More generally, the technical term for these things is combining character. The Wikipedia article I linked to contains a list of the ones currently defined in Unicode. Alas, Unicode doesn't seem to have a combining character exactly like the one you want. There is a combining upwards arrow below, U+034E, but not a combining downwards arrow below.