I'm guessing they'd say "because it looks nicer". I'm not aware of a language that treats it specially. I do think I've seen it before, I don't think it's a ne

I'm guessing they'd say "because it looks nicer". I'm not aware of a language that treats it specially. I do think I've seen it before, I don't think it's a new idea. Probably some typographic tradition from when it was used as a section separator in prose.