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mmjaa | 6 years ago

In my highschool typing classes, 40 years ago, I remember seeing this symbol used to indicate omitted paragraphs ... in the same way that the ... is used to indicate a pause between sentences, the vertical version indicates a pause between paragraphs.

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Like this.

But .. I can't seem to find online examples. Its a terrifically difficult character to search for ..

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_4570|6 years ago

That symbol is called an ellipsis when used to indicate a pause - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis

If you search by this term you can get unicode characters for both the horizontal and vertical versions.

svachalek|6 years ago

This is called the "vertical ellipsis", if that helps. It's rarely used but there's some discussion of it in the article.