I am looking for a character to indicate a missing paragraph. It is used in German schools when correcting essays.
The character is used like this and looks like the red one here (source):
I have tried:
\rfloor and \lceil, where I would need a combination of both\paragraph, which is not what I need.I am not looking for ¶ \textparagraph, of course.
I tried using tikz and the library calc:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \newcommand{\missingParagraph}{ \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay] \node[left] (mleft) at (0,0) {}; \node[right] (mright) at (0.025,0) {}; \draw[red, thick] ($(mleft.south west)+(-0.05,0)$) -| ($(mright.north west)+(-0.05,0.25)$) -- ($(mright.north west)+(+0.2,0.25)$); \end{tikzpicture} } \begin{document} bis zum bitteren Zeilenende.\missingParagraph Hier soll ein Absatz eingefügt werden. \end{document} 
Not so optimized, but it works.
Just to have an answer here: As you will probably not publish anything containing these symbols, you can just produce one by hand, like the following.
\documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone} \usepackage{color,mathtools} \newcommand{\linebreaksign}{\ensuremath{\mathclap{\color{red}\rfloor\hspace{-1.37mm}\lceil}}} \begin{document} Here should be a \linebreaksign{} linebreak \end{document} 
