So let me see if I've got this right..

Thomas:
> / / indicates phonemic representation
>
> [ ]  indicates phonetic representation
>
> | | indicates orthographic representation
>
> Any others?
I haven't seen || used thus before -- I noticed it for
the first time today, in fact, in a posting by Christophe.

In notations I am familiar with <> are used to enclose
strings of graphemes (i.e. spellings). || is used in
Dependency Phonology to enclose phonological primitives.

{} were used in structuralist morphology to enclose
morphemes(?), but I don't know much about this notation.

Many Lojbanists use {} as an alternative to italicization
(which is usually asciified _thus_) -- i.e. for citing
word forms.

In my PhD thesis, I used italicized words in normal
orthography in // to notate phonological word strings,
and in \\ to notate syntactic words. But as I carefully
avoided encouraging a wider readership for that opus, the
notation has not spread beyond its mouldering pages.

--And.

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