Section sign
The section sign (§) (also known as the section marker, section symbol, paragraph sign, paragraph marker, paragraph symbol, double S or section mark or paragraph mark for short in parts of Europe) is a letter that is an alternate form of ß used in legal code. It is also a punctuation mark. This character is used to refer to a section in legal code. For example, in the APA style: "Title 16 of the United States Code Section 580p" becomes "16 US Code § 580p", which shows the section sign in place of "United States Code Section".
Keyboard entry
Many platforms and languages have support for the section sign:
- macOS: ⌥ Option+6
- Windows: Alt+0167 or Alt+21
- iOS: & (long press)
- Android: ¶ (long press)
- Linux: Composes!
- Unicode: Error using {{unichar}}: Input "00A7" is not a hexadecimal value.
- TeX:
\S
- HTML:
§
,§
- URL Encoding:
%A7
(Latin1) or%C2%A7
(UTF8)
Some keyboards include dedicated ways to access §:
Section Sign Media
References
- ↑ "Legalboard – A keyboard for lawyers made by lawyers". www.legalkeyboards.com. Retrieved 2017-12-18.