OT: What does this symbol mean §

2009-05-21 Thread Josef Lowder
Can anyone tell me what this symbol means? § Perhaps it has multiple applications/meanings? Is there some way to access this symbol from a standard 108 keyboard? In Pagemaker, by experimenting, I discovered that CTRL+SHIFT+6 produces this symbol. CTRL+Shift+O = © (copyright symbol) CTRL+shift

Re: OT: What does this symbol mean §

2009-05-21 Thread Joshua A. Andler
This is correct... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:10 -0700, Jon M. Hanson wrote: I think it's shorthand for section. It's used a lot in legal documents. Sent from my iPhone On May 21, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Josef Lowder j...@actionline.com wrote:

Re: OT: What does this symbol mean §

2009-05-21 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Any Unicode symbol is available from the keyboard in Gnome (I believe KDE has a similar function) by entering Ctrl-Shift-hex value(s) (i.e. hold Ctrl-Shift, type 05d005ea, and get את). Some recent distributions seem to have disabled this, however, so YMMV. Linux also has the ability to compose

OT: What does this symbol mean §

2009-05-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Josef Lowder wrote: Can anyone tell me what this symbol means? § a 'section' mark, in a legal context -- Russ herrold --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to