@enf @shadychars @widespacer New discoveries in the tricolon mystery.
I found an old Sholes & Glidden document and got it scanned. I see three uses.
1) “semigraphics,” which we knew of before.pic.twitter.com/8pFFHEYRgG
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BTW I don’t know what other character could be used for a paren – but then again tricolon was eventually replaced by $ or £ without any other changes, so maybe parents were not that useful.
A dash?
But dash exists as a dash already. :·) Or do you mean underscore?
(Neil Kay postulated once maybe tricolon was a generic “use your pencil to turn into $ or £,” if you follow that line of thinking maybe a quasi-accident?)
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