Re: LINE/PAGE SEPARATOR semantics in terminal emulators

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Paul Keinanen wrote:

> While on a hardcopy device the FF and PS should have the same semantics
> (move past the paper perforation on a tractor feed system or load a new
> sheet of paper),

Surely not. Form Feed was designed to separate *pages*, whereas PS
was designed to separate *paragraphs*. Text using PS should not be
printed with one paragraph per page!

Are you thinking that "PS" means "Page Separator"? Unicode does not
define such a character, as FF does the job fine. LS and PS exist
because different systems used different conventions for line
and paragraph breaks.

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