Editing Pilcrow (section)

=== Use in Middle Ages ===
In the 1100s, {{angbr|C}} had completely replaced {{angbr|K}} as the symbol for a new chapter.<ref name=General>{{cite book|page =43 | author=M. B. Parkes |chapter = The Development of the General Repertory of Punctuation | title=Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West  | location = Berkeley | publisher= University of California Press| date =1993 | isbn= 9780520079410}}</ref> [[Rubrication|Rubricators]] eventually added one or two [[vertical bar]]s to the {{char|C}} to stylize it (as <big>{{char|⸿}}</big>); the "[[bowl (typography)|bowl]]" of the symbol was filled in with dark ink and eventually looked like the modern pilcrow, <big>{{char|¶}}</big>.<ref name=General />

(Scribes would often leave space before paragraphs to allow rubricators to add a hand-drawn pilcrow in contrasting ink. With the introduction of the printing press from the late medieval period on, space before paragraphs was still left for rubricators to complete by hand. However in some circumstances, rubricators could not draw fast enough for publishers' deadlines and books would often be sold with the beginnings of the paragraphs left blank. This is how the practice of [[wikt:indention|indention]] before paragraphs was created.<ref>{{cite book | first=Jan |last=Tschichold |editor-first= Robert |editor-last=Bringhurst |translator = Hajo Hadeler | chapter=Why the Beginnings of Paragraphs Must Be Indented |title=Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie | orig-date=1975 |trans-title= The form of the book : essays on the morality of good design | location =London |publisher= Lund Humphries |date= 1991 |isbn= 9780853316237 |oclc=220984255| pages = 105–109}}</ref>)