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This page describes standard box and diagram templates used for specific subject matter items. They include right and left side, or lower article boxes, calendars, tables, grids and diagrams used in article expostion. The templates provide a consistent, clean format for the displayed information. Infoboxes are described on the Infoboxes page.
Box Drawing Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ... {Unicode chart Box Drawing}} This template does not take any parameters.
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Until 2015, all new pillar boxes for use in the UK were Type A traditional pillars or Type C oval pillars from the foundry of Machan Engineering, Denny, Falkirk, Scotland. The foundry, which was dissolved in 2016, was the sole supplier of cast-iron pillar boxes to the Royal Mail since the 1980s and had seen orders dwindle to a single box a year.
Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. These characters are characterized by being designed to be connected horizontally and/or vertically with adjacent characters, which requires proper alignment.
A pillar box is a free-standing post box where mail is deposited to be collected by the Royal Mail and forwarded to the addressee. Pillar boxes have been used since 1852, just 12 years after the introduction of the first adhesive postage stamps and uniform penny post. According to the Letter Box Study Group, there are more than 150 recognised ...
{{subst:Box Drawings Heavy Vertical}} or {{subst:U2503}} inserts the Unicode box-drawing character ┃ ("box drawings heavy vertical"). In typical fonts, this has more whitespace around it than an ASCII vertical bar (a┃b vs. a|b) and is slightly taller. It may be used as a visual separator between items, e.g. inside a table or a template.
The Penfold pillar box John Wornham Penfold (3 December 1828 – 5 July 1909) was a surveyor and architect born in Haslemere , Surrey where he is also buried. The house in which he once lived, "Penfolds", is still to be found near the centre of the town.