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  2. Title (publishing) - Wikipedia

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    The title of a book, or any other published text or work of art, is a name for the work which is usually chosen by the author. A title can be used to identify the work, to put it in context, to convey a minimal summary of its contents, and to pique the reader's curiosity. Some works supplement the title with a subtitle.

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Italics should be used for the following types of names and titles, or abbreviations thereof: Major works of art and artifice, such as albums, books, video games, films, musicals, operas, symphonies, paintings, sculptures, newspapers, journals, magazines, epic poems, plays, television programs or series, radio shows, comics and comic strips ...

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    Titles in quotation marks that include (or in unusual cases consist of) something that requires italicization for some other reason than being a title, e.g. a genus and species name, or a non-English phrase, or the name of a larger work being referred to, also use the needed italicization, inside the quotation marks: "Ferromagnetic Material in ...

  5. Chinese punctuation for proper nouns - Wikipedia

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    The proper name mark appears as a straight underline _, while the book title mark appears as a wavy underline ﹏. On horizontally aligned texts, on-the-left beside lines ︳ and ︴ are used instead of underlines. [5] [6] In Taiwan, the underlined book title mark is called "Type A" (甲式) in contrast to "Type B" (乙式), 《》. [7]

  6. Underscore - Wikipedia

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    An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text. In proofreading, ... literally, "book title mark") serves a similar function, ...

  7. "The famous book review blurb page-turner is rarely used to describe exhaustive bios, but in this case that description fits like a finely crafted Dents glove made of peccary leather," observed ...

  8. Printer's key - Wikipedia

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    A copyright page with the printer's key underlined. This version of the book is the eighteenth printing. The printer's key, also known as the number line, is a line of text printed on a book's copyright page (often the verso of the title page, especially in English-language publishing) used to indicate the print run of the

  9. Chinese punctuation - Wikipedia

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    The three underline-like punctuation marks in Chinese (proper noun mark, wavy book title mark, and emphasis mark) rotate and shift to the left side of the text in vertical script (shifting to the right side of the text is also possible, but this is outmoded and can clash with the placement of other punctuation marks).