You may have seen the pilcrow before. Maybe you didn’t realize what it was called. If you haven’t, here’s a picture: That’s a pilcrow (curly P + a line through it). And yes, that’s a paragraph mark. That’s what we use to start a new thought. That’s what we put when the sentence gets kicked […]

If you’ve ever taken notes from a PDF and then tried to enter a chemical formula, but only gotten little boxes instead of those tiny numbers on your document, you’re not alone. Technical writing is full of this problem. Subscript character are a pain. They reside in special unicode blocks which most systems consider non-essential. […]

When you need to refer specifically to a portion of some law, there is thing called a section sign. It looks kind of like a stretched out eight or a curled-up spring. For most of us, it is nothing. Students, lawyers, and legal writers/editors considers the section sign to be something you punctuate with; it’s […]

It’s always a touchy matter. There can be a time lapse in the story that doesn’t quite add up, and before you know it, film reel has jumped a frame. There may even be no clear violation of any grammatical rule you can call out. On the surface, the sentences seem okay. But something is […]