Aug 4, 2015 · The pilcrow (¶) was traditionally genuinely used to mark the start of a new paragraph - or, perhaps more specifically, a new idea or section. It was used before the convention of leaving a clear line, or dropping a line and indenting the first word, came about, but it served more or less the same purpose.

Aug 25, 2022 · According to this article, the reverse pilcrow is used for right-to-left writing and is common when writing by hand: The reverse pilcrow (⁋) is used in the same manner as the original and is often used to indicate text that reads right to left. It is slightly more popular among handwritten editing processes as well.

Jun 15, 2017 · Several editions of the King James Version I have seen have paragraph markings (¶). I have found no explanation for how these delineations were determined or who determined them, although this art...

Mar 14, 2019 · The pilcrow is usually drawn similar to a lowercase q reaching from descender to ascender height; the loop can be filled or unfilled. There is evidence that an unfilled loop was used in the original character, looking somewhat like this: ⸿.

Oct 12, 2013 · There are many typographical symbols, for example: The pilcrow (¶) is used for paragraphs. The asterisk, dagger and double dagger (*,†,‡) for footnotes. The hurricane (§) for sections. Is there any

Sep 5, 2015 · ¶ The pilcrow sign (¶) is used herein to indicate a paragraph break where a paragraph break may not otherwise be obvious. We might place the sign either immediately after the text of one paragraph or immediately before the text of another.

Nov 5, 2015 · Many of us are familiar with the section sign (§) and the paragraph sign or pilcrow (¶), but is there a sign, symbol, or mark meant to denote a sentence? Potentially, such a mark could be used for

The pilcrow (¶), also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea (Latin: a lineā, "off the line"), or blind P, is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs.

Feb 3, 2013 · It is not at all unusual to see the dagger used as the only note marker, or to have the asterisk skipped and the dagger and double dagger used. Often the asterisk is apt to be mistaken for text (eg, in a math treatise) and so it's use as a footnote marker is ill-advised.

Feb 18, 2013 · More obscure options such as running the line on and placing a pilcrow (¶) between them, can be found, but are extremely rare. The important thing to realise, is that these are matters of typographic choices, rather than of writing.