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  2. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Question mark: Inverted question mark, Interrobang “ ” " " ‘ ’ ' ' Quotation marks: Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime: Inch, Second ® Registered trademark symbol: Trademark symbol ※ Reference mark: Asterisk, Dagger: Footnote ¤ Scarab (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign ...

  3. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Flush right: Align text flush with right margin eq # Equalize spacing: ls: Letterspace: Adjust letterspacing: ital: Italics: Put in italics rom: Roman: Put in Roman (non-italic) font bf: Boldface: Put in boldface lc: Lower case: Put text in lower case caps: Capitalize: Put text in capital case sc: Small caps: Put text in small caps wf: Wrong ...

  4. Check mark - Wikipedia

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    The check or check mark (American English), checkmark (Philippine English), tickmark (Indian English) or tick (Australian, New Zealand and British English) [1] is a mark ( , , etc.) used in many countries, including the English-speaking world, to indicate the concept "yes" (e.g. "yes; this has been verified", "yes; that is the correct answer ...

  5. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. [1] The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections.

  6. Left-to-right mark - Wikipedia

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    The left-to-right mark (LRM) is a control character (an invisible formatting character) used in computerized typesetting of text containing a mix of left-to-right scripts (such as Latin and Cyrillic) and right-to-left scripts (such as Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew). It is used to set the way adjacent characters are grouped with respect to text ...

  7. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.

  8. Guillemet - Wikipedia

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    u+00bb » right-pointing double angle quotation mark (») Guillemets ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ l əm ɛ t / , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] also UK : / ˈ ɡ iː m eɪ / , [ 3 ] US : / ˌ ɡ iː ( j ) ə ˈ m eɪ , ˌ ɡ ɪ l ə ˈ m ɛ t / , [ 4 ] French: [ɡij(ə)mɛ] ) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons , « and » , used as ...

  9. Miscellaneous Technical - Wikipedia

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    Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF. It contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions.