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The oldest classical Greek and Latin writing had little or
no space between words and could be written in boustrophedon
(alternating directions). Over time, text direction (left to
right) became standardized, and word dividers and terminal
punctuation became common. The first way to divide sentences
into groups was the original paragraphos, similar to an
underscore at the beginning of the new group.
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Indented paragraphs demonstrated in the US Constitution
In ancient manuscripts, another means to divide sentences
into paragraphs was a line break (newline) followed by an
initial 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 manuscript of Beowulf.
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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 produces a blank line
for this purpose; professional typesetters (or word processing
software) may put in an arbitrary vertical space by adjusting
leading.
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