On 01/25/2013 08:12 AM, Joó Ádám wrote:
I don’t know of its use outside of Hungary, but here, as the quote of
Halmos suggests, the tombstone is traditionally used in print
magazines as end of story. We have adopted it to the web on the
Weblabor magazine, where it stands at the end of all blog posts, so
the reader knows if it worths to open the story on its own, or the
excerpt on the front page was the whole story.
We had a problem with U+220E END OF PROOF though, as in most fonts it
is a rectangle, while in traditional use it is almost always a perfect
square. So we decided to use U+25A0 BLACK SQUARE instead, which has
its own problem since it really is oversized for this usage, so we had
to mark it up and scale it down.
Most of the times I've seen it, it's actually some form of a logo of the
magazine in question, or at least a square with the magazine's
initial(s) in it. Those all seem to be specialized forms of END OF PROOF
to me. It fits the semantics too; a black block at the end of the
article. If some magazines use squarer blocks and some more rectangular,
that's glyph variation.
A good start at a counterexample might be a math journal that uses
different-shaped blocks at the ends of its proofs and articles. Still
might just be different fonts, but it does start to address it at least.
~mark
