Obscure Marks

Obscure Marks

Pilcrow

The pilcrow is a formatting mark and is shown to indicate a paragraph.

¶

Dinkus

The dinkus is a mark used to indicate a section break. It takes many forms based on the design preferences of a given text, but the most common is three spaced asterisks.

* * *

Solidus

The solidus is often used colloquially to represent an ‘either/or’ option, but in formal contexts use a solidus to separate line breaks when quoting poetry.

/

Ampersand

The ampersand is a logogram of the word ‘and’, but is not often used in formal writing. Despite this, it has a long history and was once considered the last letter of the alphabet.

&

Interrobang

The interrobang represents a question that is exclamatory.

What is that?!

Do note that the above is the traditional way of forming an interrobang (along with !?), not this: ‽. The interrobang is a controversial punctuation mark and should be used very sparingly.