Re: Vertical line - name and how-to re-create

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you are talking about the pipe (|) character, it's usually above the
backslash (\) on a keyboard. The exact location will depend on the keyboard.

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"proofreader" <proof...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> RE the vertical line that's used as a slash all over pages--just look at
the
> top of the Office Online page; it appears between Office Home and Office
> Worldwide--(1) what is it called (2) how do you create it?
> Many, many thanks.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Now that you mention it, that's how it looks on my (Dell) keyboard as well.
I imagine it prints that way in some fonts.

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"proofreader" <proof...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Thank you Suzanne! On my keyboard it actually appears as 2 vertical
dashes.
> (I had hoped you would answer because I know you use that character. And
now
> I know what it's called!).

[Dan Freeman]

This conversation interested me because I always thought that character had
a different "typographic" name, and I was surprised you called it the
computer-ese "pipe".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_character

I particularly chuckled at its use in Khoisan orthography. <g>

I distinctly remember the old green-screen monitors showing the two vertical
bars and needing ASCII 179 to get a true vertical bar. When did these two
characters get mixed/subsumed/whatever?

Dan

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbar...@mvps.org> wrote in message
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

"Pipe" is the only name I'd heard for it in Word/computer circles, and I was
glad to have any name at all. Obviously, this was a character that did not
appear on typewriter keyboards (any more than the backslash), so I was not
familiar with it from my many decades as a typist. The referenced Wikipedia
article doesn't seem to offer anything more esoteric ("vertical bar,"
"vertical line," etc.--anybody could have thought of those).

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"Dan Freeman" <sp...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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