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  2. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Align text flush with left margin fr: 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 ...

  3. Margin (typography) - Wikipedia

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    In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. [1] The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends. When a page is justified the text is spread out to be flush with the left and right margins.

  4. Letter spacing - Wikipedia

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    Letter spacing, character spacing or tracking is an optically consistent typographical adjustment to the space between letters to change the visual density of a line or block of text. Letter spacing is distinct from kerning , which adjusts the spacing of particular pairs of adjacent characters such as "7."

  5. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    justified—text is aligned along the left margin, with letter-spacing and word-spacing adjusted so that the text falls flush with both margins, also known as fully justified or full justification; centered—text is aligned to neither the left nor right margin; there is an even gap on each side of each line.

  6. Business letter - Wikipedia

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    Business letters can have many types of content, for example to request direct information or action from another party, to order supplies from a supplier, to point out a mistake by the letter's recipient, to reply directly to a request, to apologize for a wrong, or to convey goodwill. A business letter is sometimes useful because it produces a ...

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Named, specific vessels: proper names given to: Ships, with ship prefixes , classification symbols , pennant numbers , and types in normal font: USS Baltimore (CA-68) . Italicize ship names when they appear in the names of classes of ships ( the Baltimore -class cruisers ).

  8. Optical margin alignment - Wikipedia

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    Optical margin alignment outdents letters like A, V, W, Y, and punctuation into the margins to align the text border optically. Some users remark that it makes the text margin look crooked, but this is because text frames or margin guides are visible.

  9. Letter (paper size) - Wikipedia

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    The precise origins of the dimensions of US letter-size paper (8.5 × 11 in) are not known. The American Forest & Paper Association says that the standard US dimensions have their origin in the days of manual papermaking, the 11-inch length of the standard paper being about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms". [2]