William,
 
Watch Mr. Xavier for a while and learn a thing or two about communication.



Xavier,

So far, the additional asterisk (with no space) is working with the
greater-than symbol but, interestingly, it isn't working with the less-than
symbol.
This isn't a problem for me since I'm only using the greater-than symbol right
now, but someone might want to check it out to see if it's a bug.