Question about JTAS TNS entries
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G. Kashkanun Anderson
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I do not have my issues of JTAS in front of me at the moment, but from memory I suspect you are referring to something called a 'pilcrow' (¶), also known more colloquially as a 'paragraph symbol', or a 'blind P'.
Unicode: U+00B6
HTML: & # 1 8 2 (Remove the spaces. I cannot figure out how to present the code without the browser automatically converting it into a pilcrow)
No, I do not know why it is called a blind P, other than its vague resemblance to the letter backwards. My grandfather and step-grandfather the old school typographers would have known, but alas we are at least three years too late to ask either one of them about that.
Unicode: U+00B6
HTML: & # 1 8 2 (Remove the spaces. I cannot figure out how to present the code without the browser automatically converting it into a pilcrow)
No, I do not know why it is called a blind P, other than its vague resemblance to the letter backwards. My grandfather and step-grandfather the old school typographers would have known, but alas we are at least three years too late to ask either one of them about that.
You mean this doodad?
⑆
As in:
⑆ REGINA/REGINA (0310 A788899-A) Date: 097-1105
Thats OCR BRANCH BANK IDENTIFICATION (U+2446):
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2446/index.htm
Specifically it's from MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) - the "optical" in the Unicode code point name is a misnomer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Character_Recognition_(Unicode_block)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recognition
It's the sort of thing that would appear on the bottoms of checks. Very trendy in the 1970s.
⑆
As in:
⑆ REGINA/REGINA (0310 A788899-A) Date: 097-1105
Thats OCR BRANCH BANK IDENTIFICATION (U+2446):
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2446/index.htm
Specifically it's from MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) - the "optical" in the Unicode code point name is a misnomer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Character_Recognition_(Unicode_block)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recognition
It's the sort of thing that would appear on the bottoms of checks. Very trendy in the 1970s.
4 symbols are used in TAS bulletins:
:alpha:
aragraph:
mega:
№
Three of those are used in specific manners consistent with telegraphic prowords...
:alpha: is used to indicate start of a news entry
aragraph: is used to indicate start of new paragraph - the actual content.
mega: is used to end a news entry
№ is consistently used in JTAS TNS entries as a shorthand for Number, and is the only one found other than at the start/end of line.
:alpha:
aragraph:mega:№
Three of those are used in specific manners consistent with telegraphic prowords...
:alpha: is used to indicate start of a news entry
aragraph: is used to indicate start of new paragraph - the actual content.mega: is used to end a news entry№ is consistently used in JTAS TNS entries as a shorthand for Number, and is the only one found other than at the start/end of line.
It's in the list of smilies when composing a reply.- I mean: :alpha:
Robo-smiley. A robot smile on his side :alpha:
Still does!
In journalism, we used to end an article with:
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Another of those quirks of reports and articles.
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Another of those quirks of reports and articles.
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