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  2. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    Hyphenated last names usually correspond to both last names of one of the parents, but both last names can be hyphenated, so some Hispanics may legally have two double-barrelled last names corresponding to both last names of both parents. Many Spanish scholars use a pen name, where they enter a hyphen between their last names to avoid being ...

  3. Technology creator explains reason not to hyphenate last names

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    Here's why hyphenating last names may cause some issues. The post Technology creator explains reason not to hyphenate last names appeared first on In The Know.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Square brackets have two problems; they can occasionally cause problems with wiki markup, and editors sometimes 'fix' the brackets in asymmetrical intervals to make them symmetrical. The nowiki tag can be used as a general solution to problems like this, as in <nowiki>]</nowiki> to have the ] treated as literal text.

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Do not capitalize descriptive names for regions that have not attained the status of proper names, such as southern Poland. Composite directions may or may not be hyphenated, depending on the variety of English adopted in the article. Southeast Asia and northwest are more common in American English; but South-East Asia and north-west in British ...

  7. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    This is not done in Wikipedia. In math formulas a hyphen-minus codes for a minus sign, but in text &minus; produces the minus sign (see below). En dash ("–", MOS:ENDASH) are slightly longer than hyphens. They are used: in date ranges, such as 1849–1863, to join two names in a phrase, such as the Michelson–Morley experiment,

  8. Unicode character property - Wikipedia

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    A Unicode character is assigned a unique Name (na). [1] The name is composed of uppercase letters A–Z, digits 0–9, hyphen-minus and space.Some sequences are excluded: names beginning with a space or hyphen, names ending with a space or hyphen, repeated spaces or hyphens, and space after hyphen are not allowed.

  9. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks. [1]