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Slashes showing where the lines of the original object break.
Also known as: Line break mark, ||, Slashes in a quoted inscription
A single stroke for a line break, a double stroke for a column or page break. When an inscription is printed as running prose these marks are the only record of how the text was physically laid out.
A single upright stroke marking the end of a line on the original object, and a double stroke marking the end of a column, page or face, used when the text is printed as continuous prose.
Contexts: History
Layout is evidence. Where a line breaks constrains how much text can be restored in a gap, and it is often the strongest argument for or against a proposed reading.
The same convention is borrowed outside epigraphy for quoting verse in running text, where the stroke marks the line ends of the poem.
A single upright stroke, or two parallel upright strokes side by side, set within a line of text.