Re: paragraph markers

On 10/23/2001 09:56:44 PM "Gerald Lange" wrote:

>Could you please clarify this a bit? Are you asking about pilcrows
>(paragraph marks)?

If we used the pilcrow rather than actually making a paragraph break that
is what I'm thinking of. In Ethiopic they used U+1368 (Ethiopic paragraph
separater) and then immediately carried on with the new subject.

Somewhere I thought I had read that Tibetan did the same but I can no
longer find that reference. The description for U+0F0E (TIBETAN MARK NYIS
SHAD) says that it marks the end of a whole topic and I wondered if this
was similar and if other scripts had similar features.

On 10/24/2001 03:22:32 AM Peter Constable wrote:

>Is the Unicode character U+203B used this way in Japanese? The note in the

>charts says it's used as a paragraph separator in Urdu.

The Urdu note sounds like an interesting possibility. Anyone know?

>Syloti Nagri has a set of marks used to demarcate stanzas and poetic
meters.
>Since most extant Sylheti manuscripts are poetry, there may not be any
clear
>traditional precident for what should be done in prose. I don't know if
>poetical use is close enough for what you're interested in.

Yes, this might be close enough to what I need.

Lorna

>--- In qalam@..., Lorna_Priest@... wrote:
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>> Does anyone know what scripts use/used paragraph (or subject) markers
>> rather than paragraph breaks? I know Ethiopic used to, but I'm wondering
>> what other ones do.
>>
>> Lorna
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