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  2. 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. 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 ...

  3. Media control symbols - Wikipedia

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    Symbols. Media controls on a multimedia keyboard. From top; left to right: skip backward, skip forward, stop, play/pause. Media control symbols are commonly found on both software and physical media players, remote controls, and multimedia keyboards. Their application is described in ISO/IEC 18035. [1]

  4. Help:Entering special characters - Wikipedia

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    However, when editing the text is converted to a form that is designed to be easier to edit with a standard keyboard. The characters for which this applies are: Ĉĉ, Ĝĝ, Ĥĥ, Ĵĵ, Ŝŝ, Ŭŭ. You may enter these directly in the edit box if you have the facilities to do so. However when you edit the page again you will see them encoded as Sx.

  5. Copy editing - Wikipedia

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    Copy editing. Copy editing (also known as copyediting and manuscript editing) is the process of revising written material ("copy") to improve quality and readability, as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style and accuracy. [2][3] The Chicago Manual of Style states that manuscript editing encompasses "simple mechanical ...

  6. 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.

  7. Text editor - Wikipedia

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    Editors like Leafpad, shown here, are often included with operating systems as a default helper application for opening text files. A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. An example of such program is " notepad " software (e.g. Windows Notepad). [1][2][3] Text editors are provided with operating systems and software ...

  8. Caret (proofreading) - Wikipedia

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    The caret (/ ˈkærɪt /) is a V-shaped grapheme, usually inverted and sometimes extended, used in proofreading and typography to indicate that additional material needs to be inserted at the point indicated in the text. The same symbol is also used as a diacritical mark modifying another character (as in â), for which purpose it is known as a ...

  9. Specials (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Specials is a short Unicode block of characters allocated at the very end of the Basic Multilingual Plane, at U+FFF0–FFFF. Of these 16 code points, five have been assigned since Unicode 3.0: U+FFF9 INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR, marks start of annotated text. U+FFFA INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR, marks start of annotating character (s)