This conversation interested me because I always thought that character had
a different "typographic" name, and I was surprised you called it the
computer-ese "pipe".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_character
I particularly chuckled at its use in Khoisan orthography. g
I distinctly remember the old green-screen monitors showing the two vertical
bars and needing ASCII 179 to get a true vertical bar. When did these two
characters get mixed/subsumed/whatever?
Dan
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Now that you mention it, that's how it looks on my (Dell) keyboard as
well.
I imagine it prints that way in some fonts.
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"proofreader" wrote in message
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Thank you Suzanne! On my keyboard it actually appears as 2 vertical
dashes.
(I had hoped you would answer because I know you use that character. And
now
I know what it's called!).
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
If you are talking about the pipe (|) character, it's usually above the
backslash (\) on a keyboard. The exact location will depend on the
keyboard.
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"proofreader" wrote in message
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RE the vertical line that's used as a slash all over pages--just look
at
the
top of the Office Online page; it appears between Office Home and
Office
Worldwide--(1) what is it called (2) how do you create it?
Many, many thanks.