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I've seen fleurons used in blog posts as end of article mark. It's sort of a generic sign-off / chop, stuck inline to the last paragraph of the text. Usually, w
by derefr 3y ago
I've seen fleurons used in blog posts as end of article mark. It's sort of a generic sign-off / chop, stuck inline to the last paragraph of the text. Usually, when used this way, they'll be styled in a different, lighter color than the text before them.
Obviously, an "end of article" marker isn't a thing that needs to exist — you know the article is over because there's no more article! But people putting extra "stuff" inline at the end of the last paragraph of an article, has a long history in printing anyway. Because people can be extra, and I suppose Unicode should support encoding the extravagancies of existing historical documents.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoIt's not always obvious the article is over these days. Sometimes they run sneaky ads afterwards.
- benj111 3y agoOk, an end of article marker is fine. But it doesn't mean we need multiple code points meaning the same thing. An a is an a regardless of whether it serif or sans, whether it has the thing on the top like a floppy d (edit: the unfortunate comparison wasn't intentional).