Pilcrow

The paragraph mark (¶ ) (Unicode U 00 B6 Pilcrow sign, HTML entity ¶) marks the end of the paragraph. In German, the paragraph mark is also called Alinea, from Latin a linea, " off the line ". In typographic applications, it can be shown from the Dingbats block by the Unicode character U 2761 curved stem paragraph signed ornament ( ❡ ).

It bears the name in English pilcrow, maybe verballhornt from paragraph " paragraph ". As pilcrow ( e) It is the latest occupied since 1573 and in the archaic form pylcrafte since 1440th

Typography

In the typography Alinea is a technical term for " paragraph, new line ", ie the first line of a new paragraph, which is aligned with the front set line ( otherwise mostly engaged during the paragraph against). In medieval texts used the character to separate mental units in the text, for example in songs at the end of a stanza, today this are paragraphs in use.

In early German printing the mark of a hand-written millennium is ( abbreviation for Latin item = like), which in the early modern period enumerations were marked.

Word processing

Latest word processing programs use the paragraph symbol to represent the paragraph break: If we make visible the non-printable characters, so the end of a paragraph with the ¶ sign is symbolized as a paragraph mark on the screen. It is important to define the sales end of the program-specific paragraph formatting such as indentation, line spacing, alignment and numbering: these are valid for at least a paragraph.

In other contexts, it is used to denote the end of line, so symbolizes CR (carriage return, carriage return ), the string CR LF ( carriage return feed plus Line, line feed), NL / NEL (New Line / Next line, new line) or EoL ( end of Line ), depending on the operating system or underlying character set.

Representation on computer systems

In LaTeX, the paragraph mark ¶ with \ P or \ can be pasted text paragraph.