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The oldest classical Greek and Latin writing had little or no space between words and could be written in boustrophedon (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (alternating directions). Over time, text direction (left to right) became standardized, and word dividers (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and terminal punctuation (Si apre in una nuova finestra) became common. The first way to divide sentences into groups was the original paragraphs (Si apre in una nuova finestra), similar to an underscore (Si apre in una nuova finestra) at the beginning of the new group.[2] (Si apre in una nuova finestra) The Greek parágraphos evolved into the pilcrow (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (¶), which in English manuscripts in the Middle Ages (Si apre in una nuova finestra) can be seen inserted inline between sentences. The hedera leaf (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)) followed by an initial (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) manuscript of Beowulf (Si apre in una nuova finestra). Outdenting is still used in English typography, though not commonly.[3] (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Modern English typography usually indicates a new paragraph by indenting (Si apre in una nuova finestra) the first line. This style can be seen in the (handwritten) United States Constitution (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) produces a blank line for this purpose; professional typesetters (or word processing (Si apre in una nuova finestra) software) may put in an arbitrary vertical space by adjusting leading (Si apre in una nuova finestra). This style is very common in electronic formats, such as on the World Wide Web (Si apre in una nuova finestra)and email (Si apre in una nuova finestra). Wikipedia itself employs this format.[citation needed (Si apre in una nuova finestra)]