Random question; format & character

[stofsk]

I've seen it around in some 'Traveller News Service' type bulletins. I'm talking about a special character, it looks kinda like this:

:| Some Subsector/Some Sector

Then it'll be:

¶ News item #1

¶ News item #2

etc.

Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

 

[mike wightman]

Do you mean the

symbol?

 

[stofsk]

Yes! How did you do that?

 

[stofsk]

I mean, is it a font? I've used the image because I'm trying to write a fanfic of a TAS news piece in the Gateway domain.

 

[su_liam]

It's the </font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> :alpha: </pre>[/QUOTE]symbol. I assume that was a retrofit of the forum program, 'cause that looks nothing like "alpha."

 

[mike wightman]

Originally posted by stofsk:
Yes! How did you do that?

I used the graemlins this board provides.

If I cut and past

into a word document it works...

 

[stofsk]

Yeah, I thought it was a particular font that could be used in a word processor. The para and omega symbol are special characters in open office, but that symbol isn't there. On the other hand, it's apparently considered an 'alpha' which is strange, because alpha doesn't look anything like it.

 

[aramis]

|: works close enough for me...

and ¶ should be available in unicode fonts. (delete spaces) & p a r a ; generates it in HTML (and some UBB boards).

 

[FreeTrav]

Actually, the character in question (

, graemlin'd as colon-alpha-colon) is used in magnetic-ink character recognition - if you're in the US, you can look at the bottom of the checks that your bank issues you to write against your checking account, and you'll see the character in question being used. In the Bitstream MICR TrueType fonts (MICR 010 BT, MICR 012 BT, and MICR 013 BT), it seems to be mapped to uppercase-A, so using 'alpha' as the graemlin keyword doesn't seem so farfetched.

Cut-and-paste from the forums to Word or other word processor will place the actual graphic image into your document, which will potentially bulk it up, and isn't scalable to whatever size you happen to be using.