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The section sign (�; UnicodeU+00A7, HTML entity§) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (�), or paragraph sign. When duplicated, as ��, it is read as the plural “sections” (�� 13�21), unlike “$” (dollars) and much as “pp.” (pages) is the plural of “p.” (page) or “SS” for “saints“. For an effect comparable to the contemporary use of bold type, early scribes would double stroke letters, hence the sign was developed from a double stroked letter S.
Like the dagger (�) and double dagger (�), it is also sometimes used to link to a footnote where the asterisk (*) is already in use on a given page; however, these usages are declining in favor of numbered footnotes, usually linked by a superscripted (or, decreasingly, square bracketed) number.
Usage
It is also used to represent a type specimen in animals.
In many 19th Century science and mathematics textbooks, the section symbol is used to refer a reader to a previous or later section. One particular example is the Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Sir William Thompson and Peter Guthrie Tait.
