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  2. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.

  3. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, a character entity reference refers to a character by the name of an entity which has the desired character as its replacement text. The entity must either be predefined (built into the markup language) or explicitly declared in a Document Type Definition (DTD). The format is the same as for any entity reference: &name;

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Boldface is often applied to the first occurrence of the article's title word or phrase in the lead.This is also done at the first occurrence of a term (commonly a synonym in the lead) that redirects to the article or one of its subsections, whether the term appears in the lead or not (see § Other uses, below).

  5. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, a bold font weight makes letters of a text thicker than the surrounding text. [2] Bold strongly stands out from regular text, and is often used to highlight keywords important to the text's content. For example, printed dictionaries often use boldface for their keywords, and the names of entries can conventionally be marked in bold ...

  6. Help:Text formatting - Wikipedia

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    Bold text is stylistically offset from other text without conveying extra importance. The most common use of boldface is to highlight the article title, and often synonyms, in the lead section. Do not use bold text for emphasis. Use ''' to open and close bold text.

  7. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols.

  8. Unicode symbol - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a Unicode symbol is a Unicode character which is not part of a script used to write a natural language, but is nonetheless available for use as part of a text. Many of the symbols are drawn from existing character sets or ISO/IEC or other national and international standards. The Unicode Standard states that "The universe of ...

  9. “Bald-Faced” or “Bold-Faced”: Which Is Correct?

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    What does “bold-faced lie” mean? “Bold-faced” was also around for quite a while before it began primarily describing lies. It was likewise first recorded in the late 16th century, and it ...