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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Captions

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    Captions normally start with a capital letter. The text of captions should not be specially formatted (with italics, for example), except in ways that would apply if it occurred in the main text. Several discussions (e.g. this one ) have failed to reach a consensus on whether "stage directions" such as (right) or (behind podium) should be in ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Certain definitions can be invoked by using special templates (see Help:Special characters, and templates listed at Template:Unicode). Capital letters The use of capital (upper-case) letters, including small-capitals style, is covered in detail at WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters .

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    For readability, this should be done with the template {}, which distinguishes the case of the input, giving uppercase full-size and lowercase in a readable small-caps size; this makes the output both more accessible and accurate to copy-paste: {{sc1|DeVoto}} visually produces DeVoto, which copy-pastes as DeVoto. However, if such a citation ...

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    The English-language titles of compositions (books and other print works, songs and other audio works, films and other visual media works, paintings and other artworks, etc.) are given in title case, in which every word is given an initial capital except for certain less important words (as detailed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters ...

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    A shortening is an abbreviation formed by removing at least the last letter of a word (e.g. etc. and rhino), and sometimes also containing letters not present in the full form (e.g. bike). As a general rule, use a full point after a shortening that only exists in writing (e.g. etc.) but not for a shortening that is used in speech (e.g. rhino).

  7. Full stop - Wikipedia

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    For example, the 1998 edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage used full point for the mark used after an abbreviation, but full stop or full point when it was employed at the end of a sentence; [9] the 2015 edition, however, treats them as synonymous (and prefers full stop), [10] and New Hart's Rules does likewise (but prefers full point). [11]

  8. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...

  9. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Full stop: Interpunct, Period: Decimal separator: ♀ ♂ ⚥ Gender symbol: LGBT symbols ` Grave (symbol) Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers ̀: Grave (diacrictic) Acute, Circumflex, Tilde: Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic > Greater-than sign: Angle bracket « » Guillemet: Angle brackets, quotation marks: Much greater than ...