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  2. Paragraph - Wikipedia

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    In word processing and desktop publishing, a hard return or paragraph break indicates a new paragraph, to be distinguished from the soft return at the end of a line internal to a paragraph. This distinction allows word wrap to automatically re-flow text as it is edited, without losing paragraph breaks.

  3. Verse paragraph - Wikipedia

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    Verse paragraphs are stanzas with no regular number of lines or groups of lines that make up units of sense. [1] They are usually separated by blank lines. It stands for a group of lines in a poem that form a rhetorical unit similar to that of a prose paragraph. Milton's Paradise Lost and Wordsworth's The Prelude consist of verse paragraphs.

  4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Begin new paragraph: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ no: Remove paragraph break: Caret [a] (Unicode U+2038, 2041, 2380) ‸ or ⁁ or ⎀ Insert # Insert space: Close up (Unicode U+2050) ⁐ Tie words together, eliminating a space: I was reading the news⁐paper this morning. ] [Center text] Move text right [Move text left: M̲: Insert em dash: N̲ ...

  5. Harvard sentences - Wikipedia

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    The Harvard sentences, or Harvard lines, [1] is a collection of 720 sample phrases, divided into lists of 10, used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.

  6. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan). In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. [1]

  7. 100 Best Pickup Lines That Make Flirting Easy - AOL

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    From smooth pickup lines that actually work, to funny, to corny, these are the best pickup lines to help strike a conversation with that special someone. 100 Best Pickup Lines That Make Flirting ...

  8. Pilcrow - Wikipedia

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    Possible development from capitulum to modern paragraph symbol. [6] The first way to divide sentences into groups in Ancient Greek was the original παράγραφος [parágraphos], which was a horizontal line in the margin to the left of the main text. [7]

  9. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    Some modern desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe InDesign, evaluate the effects of all the different possible line-break choices on the entire paragraph, to choose the one that creates the least variance from the ideal spacing while justifying the lines (so as to reduce rivers); this also gives the least uneven edge when set with a ragged ...