Re: End of story character

There's also the venerable U+0003 "end of text". It has the virtue (?) of
having no associated glyph and so can be realized however one likes.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Richard Wordingham <
richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:05:41 -0300
> Andrés Sanhueza <peroyomaslists_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Do you think that a "end of story" symbol may be feasible/useful?
>
> One such symbol is already encoded, the Halmos tombstone U+220E END OF
> PROOF. I'm not sure that it should have general class Sm instead of
> Po - Paul Halmos himself wrote of the symbol,
>
> "The symbol is definitely not my invention — it appeared in popular
> magazines (not mathematical ones) before I adopted it, but, once again,
> I seem to have introduced it into mathematics. It is the symbol that
> sometimes looks like ▯, and is used to indicate an end, usually the end
> of a proof. It is most frequently called the 'tombstone', but at least
> one generous author referred to it as the ‘halmos’."
>
> There are several other such characters already, such as U+0E5B THAI
> CHARACTER KHOMUT and U+17DA KHMER SIGN KOOMUUT.
>
> Richard.
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Received on Thu Jan 24 2013 - 20:40:05 CST