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 · This contains the line: " Note that U+204B REVERSED PILCROW SIGN was derived from the typographic U+00B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN (itself a descendant of U+2E3F CAPITULUM), and is not a glyph variant of PARAGRAPHUS MARK. "The reversed Pilcrow thus seems to have a history related to the normal pilcrow. Just wish I knew a little more.

Jun 15, 2017 · Souce: Pilcrow Part 1 Overall, the insertion of the pilcrow appears to be independently determined by each committee of the translation. The pilcrow (¶) has an interesting history, and was gradually derived from the capitulum used by monks to mark new chapters and later used for new paragraphs or sentence markers, as the writer / scribe ...

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: ⸿. Over time, the pilcrow evolved to become aligned and the loop was filled in standard practise:

Sep 5, 2015 · The correct usage of the pilcrow sign "¶" (as I understand) is to begin a paragraph, or to indicate a paragraph on a page that is not laid out with ordinary paragraph line-breaks. I'm writing a technical report and it happens that a page break coincides with a new paragraph, opening with a word that cannot be capitalized.

Oct 12, 2013 · @bamboo Unicode has three distinct pilcrows, and many fonts have additional ones. ‭ ¶ U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN; ‭ ⁋ U+204B REVERSED PILCROW SIGN; ‭ U+2761 CURVED STEM PARAGRAPH SIGN ORNAMENT. Just as he does with ampersands, Bringhurst advises using the nicest looking pilcrow the font contains, which is often an alternate swash character.

Nov 5, 2015 · From our modern English-language perspective, it seems fitting that since the pilcrow resembles a P for paragraph, this "silcrow" ought to resemble an S for sentence. Naturally, this is in a way a case of folk etymology, and the pilcrow did not always resemble a backwards P, but such considerations are irrelevant if we are aiming to create a ...

It's called a pilcrow. From Wikipedia: 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 · Grammar Girl offers the same advice, citing Chicago Manual of Style.She writes: You use the symbols in a specific order that starts with the asterisk and then continues with the dagger, double dagger, section mark, parallels, and number sign.

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. This has a few important consequences: