On Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 11:05:06 AM UTC+1, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: P.S.: By the way the Pilcrow was originally used inline (often coloured > red) in Medieval manuscripts to indicate a ceasura / hiatus / pause in the > flow of a text. > Vellum / parchment was very expensive so text is as condensed as possible. > Paragraphs separated by lines evolved much later and was more to do with > the development of printing and cheaper paper. >
Yea, I've seen that. I did find this: Scribes would often leave space before paragraphs to allow rubricators > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubrication> to draw the pilcrow. With the > introduction of the printing press, space before paragraphs was still left > for rubricators to draw by hand; however, rubricators could not draw fast > enough for printers and often would leave the beginnings of the paragraphs > as blank. This is how the indent before paragraphs was created.[11] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow#cite_note-11> Nevertheless, the > pilcrow remains in use in modern time in the following ways: > very interesting. ... I did ask myself for some time, where the indented first line in paragraphs comes from. .... Now I know :) -m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/a7c70fd3-ef03-4d1f-8af1-b15d0da408a1o%40googlegroups.com.
