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Re: [Groff] Hello to you all ! a digression...


From: Stewart C. Russell
Subject: Re: [Groff] Hello to you all ! a digression...
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:10:52 +0100

"Stewart C. Russell" wrote:
> 
> Alternatively, this may be the character (I think) we call the
> 'viniculum'

As usual, I was talking through my hat. It's called the hedera (ivy
leaf) and used for brief pauses in the text, not paragraph marking. Zapf
Dingbats glyph a107, if you're interested. Looks like this (if you're
using a monospaced mail reader, as one should):

 
     #####   #####       ### 
    ####### ### ###      ####
   #     ### #   #       ####
  #        ###   ##      ####
 ###         ### ##      ### 
  #           ## ##       ## 
 ##            ###       ### 
 ##              ####   ##   
 ###             # # ###     
          ###   #            
       #######     # #       
       ########   ######     
      ########## #######     
      ######### #########    
     #####################   
     #####################   
     #####################   
     ####################    
     #####################   
      ###################    
     ###################     
      #################      
       #############         
       ############          
       #########       #     
         #######      ###    
         #######     ###     
           #####     ###     
           # ###   # ###     
              #######        

(piping a very low res pbm file through "pnmnoraw | tail +3 |\
 tr '01' ' #'" is your friend. Much better than pbmtoascii)

 Stewart

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