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The oldest classical Greek and Latin writing had little or no space between words and could be written in boustrophedon (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (alternating directions). Over time, text direction (left to right) became standardized, and word dividers (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) and terminal punctuation (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) became common. The first way to divide sentences into groups was the original paragraphs (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), similar to an underscore (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) at the beginning of the new group.[2] (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) The Greek parágraphos evolved into the pilcrow (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (¶), which in English manuscripts in the Middle Ages (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) can be seen inserted inline between sentences. The hedera leaf (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (e.g. ☙) has also been used in the same way.

Indented paragraphs demonstrated in the US Constitution

In ancient manuscripts, another means to divide sentences into paragraphs was a line break (newline (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)) followed by an initial (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) at the beginning of the next paragraph. An initial is an oversized capital letter, sometimes outdented beyond the margin of the text. This style can be seen, for example, in the original Old English (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) manuscript of Beowulf (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). Outdenting is still used in English typography, though not commonly.[3] (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) Modern English typography usually indicates a new paragraph by indenting (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) the first line. This style can be seen in the (handwritten) United States Constitution (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) from 1787. For additional ornamentation, a hedera leaf or other symbol can be added to the inter-paragraph white space, or put in the indentation space.

A second common modern English style is to use no indenting, but add vertical white space to create "block paragraphs." On a typewriter, a double carriage return (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) produces a blank line for this purpose; professional typesetters (or word processing (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) software) may put in an arbitrary vertical space by adjusting leading (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). This style is very common in electronic formats, such as on the World Wide Web (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)and email (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). Wikipedia itself employs this format.[citation needed (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)]