I looked at "siglum", wondering if it has something to do with gollum or glum. Well, "Siglum" seems to be a generic denomination for special characters (*,#,§,&,@...). On Mac's character wiever § is called "Section sign", what seems to be the normal name in english. It is highly used in legal writing to refer to sections of laws and so on. in french § is usually called "paragraphe" but the nicest name is the one of the ampersand (&) : "esperluette". Thanks to RunRev (and Richmond) I'm learning new things every day !
Jacques Le 29 oct. 2010 à 08:26, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : > On 10/28/10 11:21 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Richmond. >> >> <snip> >> >> And what is the story with "siglum? > > Well; on Mac keyboards the top-left key has a siglum: § on it, rather > than a `; that key usually being to the left of the Z key. > > Whether § should be classified seriously as one of the sigla is a bit > of a moot point; I do know that it is often used to mark secondary > footnotes in 18th and 19th century books. Why the thing is on a Mac > keyboard I just don't know. > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ****************************************** Prof. Jacques Hausser Department of Ecology and Evolution Biophore / Sorge University of Lausanne CH 1015 Lausanne please use my private address: 6 route de Burtigny CH-1269 Bassins tel/fax: ++ 41 22 366 19 40 mobile: ++ 41 79 757 05 24 E-Mail: [email protected] ******************************************* _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
