Information about Pilcrow
The pilcrow (¶; Unicode
The pilcrow can be used as an indent for separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1930s book, An Essay On Typography. The pilcrow was used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of physically discrete paragraphs was commonplace.
The pilcrow is usually drawn like a backwards letter P reaching to caps height or ascender height, but may also be drawn with the bowl stretching further downwards, resembling a backwards D.
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The name may be a derivation of paragraph through parcrafte, but this etymology is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word originated as pylcraft, a corrupted form of "paragraph" (earliest reference c.1440).
By one account, the pilcrow originated as a C, for capitulum (Latin for "chapter"). By this account, the pilcrow is a symbol for a paraph which replaced the paragraphos, which was marked using different symbols, including the section sign. The paraph could also be marked with a full-height cent-like sign or a double slash, originally left as a note from the scribe to the rubricator.[1]
In legal writing, it is used whenever one must reference a specific paragraph within pleadings, law review articles, statutes, or other legal documents and materials.
In proofreading, it is used to indicate that one paragraph should be split into two or more separate paragraphs; the pilcrow is inserted at the point at which a new paragraph should begin.
Online, it is used in some blogs and wikis to denote permalinks [2] (cf Purple Numbers).
In Unicode, the character is called PILCROW SIGN, and has codepoint
The pilcrow character can be added as a visible, printable character on the Windows operating system using the shortcut alt + 0182. Depending on the font used, this character will have varied appearance, and in some cases, may be replaced by an alternate glyph entirely.
On a Mac OS computer the pilcrow character can be generated by typing Option + 7.
Basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd
Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj
Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp
Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv
Ww Xx Yy Zz
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U+00B6, HTML entity ¶), also called the paragraph sign or the alinea (Latin: a linea, "of the line"), is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs. This non-alphabetic symbol varies from typeface to typeface, but the form shown here is typical.
The pilcrow can be used as an indent for separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1930s book, An Essay On Typography. The pilcrow was used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of physically discrete paragraphs was commonplace.
The pilcrow is usually drawn like a backwards letter P reaching to caps height or ascender height, but may also be drawn with the bowl stretching further downwards, resembling a backwards D.
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History and etymology
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Development from capitulum into modern paragraph symbol.
The name may be a derivation of paragraph through parcrafte, but this etymology is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word originated as pylcraft, a corrupted form of "paragraph" (earliest reference c.1440).
By one account, the pilcrow originated as a C, for capitulum (Latin for "chapter"). By this account, the pilcrow is a symbol for a paraph which replaced the paragraphos, which was marked using different symbols, including the section sign. The paraph could also be marked with a full-height cent-like sign or a double slash, originally left as a note from the scribe to the rubricator.[1]
Contemporary use
The pilcrow has been used in desktop publishing software such as word processors and page layout programs to mark the presence of a carriage return control character at the end of a paragraph. It is also used as the icon on a class of toolbar button which shows or hides the pilcrow and similar "hidden characters", including tabs, whitespace, and page breaks. In typing programs, it is used to mark a return that one needs to type.In legal writing, it is used whenever one must reference a specific paragraph within pleadings, law review articles, statutes, or other legal documents and materials.
In proofreading, it is used to indicate that one paragraph should be split into two or more separate paragraphs; the pilcrow is inserted at the point at which a new paragraph should begin.
Online, it is used in some blogs and wikis to denote permalinks [2] (cf Purple Numbers).
In Unicode, the character is called PILCROW SIGN, and has codepoint
U+00B6. The HTML entity for it is ¶.
The pilcrow character can be added as a visible, printable character on the Windows operating system using the shortcut alt + 0182. Depending on the font used, this character will have varied appearance, and in some cases, may be replaced by an alternate glyph entirely.
On a Mac OS computer the pilcrow character can be generated by typing Option + 7.
Paragraph signs in foreign languages
In Chinese, the traditional paragraph sign is a thin sans serif circle about the same size as a Chinese character. This same mark also serves as a “zero” character, as a stylistic variation of the Chinese character for “zero”. As a paragraph sign, this mark only appears in older books. Its current use is generally as a “zero” character.See also
References
1. ^ Parkes, M.B. Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West. ISBN 0-520-07941-8.
2. ^ ongoing — Purple Pilcrows
2. ^ ongoing — Purple Pilcrows
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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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A paragraph is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea, or the words of an author. The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line and ending without running to the next passage.
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Basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd
Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj
Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp
Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv
Ww Xx Yy Zz
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Punctuation is everything in written language other than the actual letters or numbers, including punctuation marks (listed at right), inter-word spaces, capitalization, and indentation.
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apostrophe ( ’ or ' ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages written in the Latin alphabet.
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Brackets are punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text. With respect to computer science, the term is sometimes said to only strictly apply to the square or box type.
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colon (“:”) is a punctuation mark, consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.
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Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from Greek ἔλλειψις 'omission') in printing and writing refers to the row of three full stops (… or . . .
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exclamation mark or exclamation point is a punctuation mark: ! It is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and generally marks the end of a sentence.
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Guillemets, also called angle quotes, are line segments, pointed as if arrows (« or »), sometimes forming a complementary set of punctuation marks used as a form of quotation mark.
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hyphen ( ‐ ) is a punctuation mark. It is used both to join words and to separate syllables. It is often confused with the dashes ( –, —, ― ), which are longer and have different functions.
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question mark (?), also known as an interrogation point, question point, query,[1] or eroteme, is a punctuation mark that replaces the full stop at the end of an interrogative sentence.
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Quotation marks or inverted commas (also informally quotes,[1] and occasionally speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word.
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A semicolon ( ; ) is a punctuation mark. The Italian printer Aldus Manutius the Elder established the practice of using the mark to separate words opposed in meaning and to mark off interdependent statements.
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The solidus character U+2044, ⁄, also known as a shilling mark, is a punctuation mark; it is not found on standard keyboards.
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