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Month: December 2013

  • Problems of moving from one country to another

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    The heading of this blog should now say ‘no longer in Fürth’, unfortunately. But I will get round to that one day, I hope. Curious factoids: 1. In the UK you can order postage stamps online from various places, but only Royal Mail can send you 88p stamps – the standard for the EU. Another…

  • Buses and state courts

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    Can you commit a breach of copyright by watching streaming pornography? The Cologne Landgericht (officially translated into English as the Cologne Regional Court) has apparently admitted that it may have been unjustified in requiring the names of customers to be revealed, following which letters before action were sent out, requiring recipients to pay 250 euros…

  • The pilcrow’s partner in crime: §

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    MMarks
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    Keith Houston, of the Shady Characters book, turns his attention to the section symbol. I’ve always known it as the section sign, or section symbol; Robert Bringhurst (The Elements of Typographic Style)[1] and Theodore Rosendorf (The Typographic Desk Reference),[2] my go-to typographic references, agree. It seems odd, though, that this eminently shady character has no…