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W07VH5 |
What is the symbol after “horrible.”?  | ||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
Looks like a mouse cursor in some type of word document ... | |||
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| W07VH5 |
It does. I’m wondering why it’s been left in the print. | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
And this looks like a double sided printed page. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
It’s a book. | |||
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My smart-ass response was 'a period' The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
Pretty sure it is a text cursor that was not toggled off when the book was printed ... thus printing the text cursor too. What is the date of the book ? | |||
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Member |
I'm not the OP but my initial impression is it's a pretty old book. Or The Book. Maybe Revelations? | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
I don't recall the book of Revelation contains the word "horrible", though. Q | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Just a wag, but a "stop" mark at the end of a stanza (it wasn't unusual for the Bible to be sung rather than read aloud in the early days of Christianity) or a place for the reader to pause when it's being read aloud? | |||
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Intermission Time for a snack and beverage or a visit to the comfort station. Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Member |
Book of Enoch? If so the mark must be of modernity. ------- Trying to simplify my life... | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Well, it looks like the text position marker in some editor, but I've always thought such was part of the editor and not of the text. I don't see how one got in a position to be printed. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Mistake Not... |
My guess is typographical error at the printers/editors. ___________________________________________ Life Member NRA & Washington Arms Collectors Mistake not my current state of joshing gentle peevishness for the awesome and terrible majesty of the towering seas of ire that are themselves the milquetoast shallows fringing my vast oceans of wrath. Velocitas Incursio Vis - Gandhi | |||
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Void Where Prohibited |
How old is that book? If it's old enough, it could have been printed with old manual typesetting technology; that line could be from a part of the type block holder getting inked? "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
So here's my thinking on why that mark got there. The book isn't really a book of "printed" pages but rather a book of images. You get that mark if you do screen shot images without turning off the option to capture cursor images. I have that on my image capture software. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
There is a vertical line in typography, and maybe a stray one made its way into this book. I think it is clearly a typesetting or printing error. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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. Pipe symbol | is a typographical mark used in computing, mathematics, physics, and typesetting. For computing, they are usually used as a pair || to concatenate two objects together. But their use can be different depending on which computer language you are using. I do not know how the Pipe is used in Typesetting and it's been to many years to remember the math formulas from physic class. . | |||
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I don't believe the pipe has the little tails that are shown in the image of the OP | Just a regular line, similar to a capital I without the cross bars at the ends. Looks like a finer version of the mouse cursor on a text doc. In my case, on the forum software, it looks mire like a capital I with the cross bars at the ends. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Lost |
Yes, those crossbars are called "serifs", and I've never seen a vertical line that has serifs in any font I've seen. If someone knows different, pipe up. It sure looks like a text cursor that got scanned into printed text somehow. | |||
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