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P

Represents the paragraph symbol (pilcrow) used for marking new paragraphs or sections in text.

Overview

Serves as a professional typographic mark primarily used in legal documents, editorial work, and academic writing to denote paragraph breaks or reference specific paragraphs.

  • Common in legal citations and document formatting
  • Used in proofreading and editorial markup
  • Appears in document preparation where explicit paragraph marking is needed
  • Often employed in conjunction with section numbers for precise referencing

Examples

Legal paragraph symbol in a mathematical text reference.

Accordingto3.2ofthetheorem...According to \text{\P}3.2 of the theorem...
According to \text{\P}3.2 of the theorem...

Citing multiple paragraphs in formal documentation.

See¶¶4.14.3forcompleteproofSee \text{\P\P}4.1--4.3 for complete proof
See \text{\P\P}4.1--4.3 for complete proof

Referencing a specific paragraph in parenthetical notation.

(5)(\text{\P}5)
(\text{\P}5)