Re: Characters consisting of vertical lines; Possible attempts to encode tally marks

From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 07:01:31 CST

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    A related question.

    E-mail msgs used to come in with ">" to mark start of each quoted line.

    Now they tend to come in with a vertical bar to serve the same purpose.

    AND it is not possible to cut and paste that into the middle of a line.

    If you try to do that, the symbol reverts to a start-of-line position.

    Obviously, by its behaviour, this is a different species of vertical
    bar.

    How many species of vertical bar chars really need to be named &
    defined?

    For example, the following line clearly employs two different species:
    > ...
    > be *approximated* by "| ", "|| ", "||| ", "||||"...

    I see the "tally mark" like a musical "bar" (denoting one count). Is
    it not?

    mg

    2007-03-01 12:58 GMT

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