Editing Pilcrow (section)

== Modern use ==
[[File:Doves Press Bible.jpg|thumb|upright 0.75|Opening page of Genesis from the Doves Bible ([[Doves Press]], 1902): pilcrow used as a verse marker]]

The pilcrow remains in use in modern documents in the following ways:

* In [[legal writing]], it is often used whenever one [[Legal citation|cites]] a specific paragraph within [[pleadings]], [[law review]] articles, [[statute]]s, or other legal documents and materials. It is also used to indicate a paragraph break within quoted text.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jessen |first1=Edward W. |title=California Style Manual: A Handbook of Legal Style for California Courts and Lawyers |date=2000 |publisher=Supreme Court of California |location=San Francisco |page=131 |edition=4 |url=https://sdap.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/Style-Manual.pdf#page=157}}</ref>
* In academic writing, it is sometimes{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} used as an in-text referencing tool to make reference to a specific paragraph from a document that does not contain page numbers, allowing the reader to find where that particular idea or statistic was sourced. The pilcrow sign followed by a number indicates the paragraph number from the top of the page. It is rarely used when citing books or journal articles.
* In [[web publishing]] style guides, a pilcrow may be used to indicate an [[Hyperlink#Anchor|anchor link]].<ref>{{Cite IETF |rfc=RFC7992 |url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7992#section-5.2 |title = HTML Format for RFCs {{!}} §5.2 Pilcrows |publisher=[[Internet Architecture Board]] |date = December 2016 |last1 = Hildebrand|first1 = Joe |last2 = Hoffman|first2 = Paul E. |editor-first1 = J |editor-last1 = Hildebrand |doi = 10.17487/RFC7992 }}</ref>
* In [[proofreading]], it indicates an instruction that one paragraph should be split into two or more separate paragraphs. The proofreader inserts the pilcrow at the point where a new paragraph should begin.
* In some [[high-church]] [[Anglican]] and [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] churches, it is used in the printed order of service to indicate that instructions follow; these indicate when the [[Parish church|congregation]] should stand, sit, and kneel, who participates in various portions of the service, and similar information. [[King's College, Cambridge]] uses this convention in the service booklet for the [[Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols]]. This is analogous to the writing of these instructions in red in some rubrication conventions.

The pilcrow is also often used in [[word processing]] and [[desktop publishing]] software:

* As the [[toolbar]] [[icon (computing)|icon]] used to toggle the display of formatting marks, such as tabs and paragraph breaks.<ref>{{citation |work=Word Help |title=Show or hide tab marks in Word |quote=Turn the display of formatting marks on or off |publisher=Microsoft}} accessed=13 June 2023</ref>
** As the symbol for a paragraph break, shown when display is requested.

The pilcrow may indicate a [[footnote]] in a convention that uses a set of distinct typographic symbols in turn to distinguish between footnotes on a given page; it is the sixth in a series of [[footnote]] symbols beginning with the [[asterisk]].<ref name = style /> (The modern convention is to use numbers or letters in superscript form.)