Short answer: maybe.
If you are concerned about comprehensibility, you could use the pilcrow sign as one of the endnote symbols. And, in the body text, use the pilcrow sign only to emphasize a paragraph break. One convention for footnote symbols is: asterisk, dagger, double dagger, section sign, parallel bars, pilcrow sign. ¶
If you are still concerned about comprehensibility, you can insert frontmatter explaining the endnote symbols. Long technical documents often have frontmatter that explains such things. Take, for example, the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece. Again, scientific and engineering reports often have frontmatter including "list of acronymns" and "list of units."
¶ Some alternatives:—
Use a dinkus, e.g.:
... Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
(page break)
* * *
and now for something completely different, that starts with a lower-case letter.
Use a horizontal rule, e.g:
... Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
(page break)
and now for something different (but not completely different), that starts with a lower-case letter.
Use an endnote, e.g.:
... Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.[42]
(page break)
and now for something different (but not really), that starts with a lower-case letter.
(more text)
Endnotes
[42] Here ends a paragraph. ("We apologise for the fault in the [formatting]. Those responsible have been sacked"—Monty Python and the Holy Grail opening credits).
Insert a figure, e.g.:
... Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
⊠
Figure 42.
(page break; the rest of the first troublesome paragraph now appears at the top of the next page instead of the second troublesome paragraph)
Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
and now for something different (but not really), that starts with a lower-case letter.
Perhaps try one of the techniques used (perhaps accidentally) in N2176. Some options follow.
- Break the preceding paragraph into multiple paragraphs, e.g.:
parameter
formal parameter
(page break)
formal argument (deprecated)
- Use a run-in header, e.g.:
ceiling of x: the least integer greater than or equal to x
(page break)
EXAMPLE [the body text of the example I am quoting is too complex to quote here.]
- Decorate the body of the second paragraph in a manner distinct from the first, e.g.:
The function called at program startup is named main. The implementation declares no prototype
for this function. It shall be defined with a return type of int and with no parameters:
(page break)
int main(void) { /* ... */ }
- Number the paragraphs, e.g.:
9 NOTE 4 There is a separate...
(page break)
10 A release sequence headed...
Endnotes
¶ The pilcrow sign (¶) is used herein to indicate a paragraph break where a paragraph break may not otherwise be obvious. We might place the sign either immediately after the text of one paragraph or immediately before the text of another. We have also used it in an early part of the document to inform the reader of our usage of it.
