TT, I did read your history, it's Quite interesting. And to some extent I defer to you, but in my return quote I pointed out the "modern" use of Pilcrow.
It is interesting to know where the indented 1st line of a paragraph comes from, something I have never liked the aesthetics of, to be honest. You may be interested in this https://unicode.org/L2/L2016/16235-two-medieval-chars.pdf What I do hope is in the end we can accommodate different mark-up needs, and in fact that is the value of this project. That is one reason I speculated if it were possible to have an end of line only mark-up symbol, not only because that is the way I would be inclined to use pilcrows, but to support other end of line annotations. I believe this may already be achieved with inline mark-up placed at the end of line. One persons end of line is another's beginning of line anyway, for example I can imagine ﹙¶﹚. I could see someone with the interest providing both the plugin and custom for anyone of these different systems. Not unlike they way a mathematician may extend tiddlywiki to their own mark-up language to represent complex maths, perhaps people may do this for old English, newspapers, PageMaker (One of the first professional printing applications and the use of postscript <https://www.hackworth.co/what-is-postscript-and-why-do-almost-all-high-end-printers-support-it/>). The key being people can make tiddlywiki their own, in new ways, through the value of mark-up. Or as an example people preparing medieval style texts or writing about them. One example I am aware of is using custom mark-up to write HTML via shortcuts. Combined with tiddlywiki's automation I have always seen the potential for tiddlywiki to be configured to be a site designer and generator as well, this is where using html elements are helpful. One thing that excites me a lot is using an "arbitrary html tag" inside a custom mark-up. Basically it allows the writer to contain custom css and other "semantically appropriate" sections in the document. Add to this transclusion and macros an one could potentially generate a website by filling in some content settings and export (via zip) a whole multi-page site. Could this be a SquareSpace Wix killer? I have experimented with connecting to html and external javascript and there is a lot of potential there for more host interaction, I just do not have the skills yet. Yet another thought of late, is in response to filters, logical operators and the fact that filters handle sets. It seems to me the introduction of annotation for basic set manipulations would also be helpful. See in the pre-release https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#Filter%20Expression Equivalent named prefix Regards Tony On Sunday, 1 November 2020 03:57:52 UTC+11, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > TonyM wrote: >> >> ¶ >> I would not bother with the use of pilcrow unless it was part of an end >> of line form of glyph only. >> > > Pilcrow has a complex history before printing, in printing & on the net. > They all diverge & overlap. > > Essentially the paragraph "mark" is a signal for a "longer pause" in > thought in all incarnations. > > I mention a bit of its history in some comments to PMario above. > > Best wishes > TT > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/2ae2294e-32f3-4543-940e-1da8c3579d3ao%40googlegroups.com.
