"§" symbol - find some kind of role in WikiText: just an idea

[Alex Hough]

Dear TiddlyWikers

I saw this:

This article is about points of interaction of computer systems. For other uses, see Interface (disambiguation) § Computing. [1]

It gave me an idea

The "§" symbol is easy to find in the keyboard (on mac at least), I thought that it could be used for something, for navigating to sections of text.

just a thought...

best wishes

Alex

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(computing)

[prog...@assays.tv]

A note on the orthography of "§" ... I agree that "§" is a GOOD "section marker". It was, and probably still is, extensively used in legal documents to mark sections. In the past it was also used quite a lot in books with lots of sections.

HOWEVER, the layout of a standard PC "US Keyboard" lacks it. The standard PC "US International Keyboard" also lacks it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards.

Its likely to be on some PC keyboards in some countries. It IS on my Italian keyboard where its used to represent "double s", though actual use of it for that is rare now.

As far as I can see it is NOT on all Mac keyboards either: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794.

Best wishes
Josiah

[sini-Kit]

There is no symbol "§"  in Russian+ English  variant keyboard  I have `~!@#$%^&*<>|\/ only  

воскресенье, 8 мая 2016 г., 12:13:46 UTC+3 пользователь AlexHough написал:

[Jeremy Ruston]

I've recently been using that symbol as a temporary marker during development to indicate strings that must be translated. It's actually very accessible on my Mac keyboard; it has a dedicated key below the escape key. But I can't seem to type it here on my iPad.

Classical wiki text has been pretty much restricted to plain ASCII characters, I think on the basis that they are easy to type on all keyboards.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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