Editing Pilcrow (section)

=== Use in Ancient Greek ===
[[File:GNM3227a 6r.jpg|thumb|Three short paragraphs on making gunpowder in the manuscript [[GNM 3227a]] (Germany, c. 1400); the first paragraph is marked with an early form of the pilcrow sign, the two following paragraphs are introduced with ''litterae notabiliores'' (enlarged letters).]]
[[File:Villanova-rudimenta-grammaticæ-Valencia-1500.jpg|thumb|Pilcrow signs in an excerpt from a page of ''Villanova, Rudimenta Grammaticæ'', printed by Spindeler in 1500 in Valencia.<ref name=Updike>{{cite book |last=Updike |first=Daniel Berkeley |title=Printing types, their history, forms and use, a study in survivals by Daniel Berkeley Updike |date=1922 |volume= I |page= 108| url=https://archive.org/details/printingtypesthe01updi/page/108/mode/2up}}</ref>]]
[[Image:Pilcrow-history.svg|thumb|Possible development from ''capitulum'' to modern paragraph symbol.<ref name=General />]]

The first way to divide sentences into groups in Ancient Greek was the original {{lang|grc|παράγραφος}} [{{Transliteration|grc|parágraphos}}], which was a horizontal line in the margin to the left of the main text.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historyenglishp00lewigoog |title=The History of the English Paragraph |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=1894 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyenglishp00lewigoog/page/n13 9] |author=Edwin Herbert Lewis}}</ref> As the {{lang|grc|paragraphos}} became more popular, the horizontal line eventually changed into the Greek letter [[Gamma]] ({{angbr|Γ}}, {{angbr|γ}}) and later into {{lang|la|[[Initial|litterae notabiliores]]}}, which were enlarged letters at the beginning of a paragraph.<ref>{{cite book|page =10 | author=M. B. Parkes |chapter = Introduction: Glossary of Technical Terms | title=Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West  | location = Berkeley | publisher= University of California Press| date =1993 | isbn= 9780520079410}}</ref>