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  2. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Note (typography) - Wikipedia

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    In publishing, a note is a brief text in which the author comments on the subject and themes of the book and names supporting citations.In the editorial production of books and documents, typographically, a note is usually several lines of text at the bottom of the page, at the end of a chapter, at the end of a volume, or a house-style typographic usage throughout the text.

  4. Text annotation - Wikipedia

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    Text annotations can serve a variety of functions for both private and public reading and communication practices. In their article "From the Margins to the Center: The Future of Annotation," scholars Joanna Wolfe and Christine Neuwirth identify four primary functions that text annotations commonly serve in the modern era, including: (1)"facilitat[ing] reading and later writing tasks," which ...

  5. Marginalia - Wikipedia

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    Marginalia can add to or detract from the value of an association copy of a book, depending on the author of the marginalia and on the book. Catherine C. Marshall, doing research on the future of user interface design, has studied the phenomenon of user annotation of texts. She discovered that in several university departments, students would ...

  6. Manicule - Wikipedia

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    The manicule, ☛, is a typographic mark with the appearance of a hand with its index finger extending in a pointing gesture. Originally used for handwritten marginal notes, it later came to be used in printed works to draw the reader's attention to important text.

  7. Tags (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    The only usage specified is for representing the flags of regions, alongside the use of Regional Indicator Symbols for national flags. [7] These sequences consist of U+1F3F4 WAVING BLACK FLAG followed by a sequence of tags corresponding to the region as coded in the CLDR , then U+E007F CANCEL TAG .

  8. Section sign - Wikipedia

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    [11] Others have theorized that it is an adaptation of the Ancient Greek παράγραφος (paragraphos), [9] a catch-all term for a class of punctuation marks used by scribes with diverse shapes and intended uses. [12] The modern form of the sign, with its modern meaning, has been in use since the 13th century. [8]: 226

  9. Dog ears - Wikipedia

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    A dog-eared page. A dog ear is a folded down corner of a book page. The name refers to the ears of many breeds of domestic dog flapping over. [1] A dog ear can serve as a bookmark. Dog-earing is also commonly used to mark a section or phrase in a book that one finds to be important or of personal meaning.