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Business letters conform to generally one of six indentation formats: standard, open, block, semi-block, modified block, and modified semi-block. Put simply, "semi-" means that the first lines of paragraphs are indented; "modified" means that the sender's address, date, and closing are significantly indented.
Spacing Modifier Letters is a Unicode block containing characters for the IPA, UPA, and other phonetic transcriptions. Included are the IPA tone marks, and modifiers for aspiration and palatalization .
End of Transmission Block: ETB / Ctrl-W U+0018 24 030 Cancel character: CAN / Ctrl-X 10: U+0019 25 031 End of Medium: ... Letters: Lowercase. U+00DF ß 223 0303 0237 ...
The characters in the "Spacing Modifier Letters" block are intended as forming a unity with the preceding letter (which they "modify"). E.g. the character U+02B0 ʰ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H isn't intended simply as a superscript h ( h ), but as the mark of aspiration placed after the letter being aspirated, as in pʰ " aspirated voiceless ...
Block letters may also be used as to refer to block capitals, which means writing in all capital letters or in large and small capital letters, imitating the style of typeset capital letters. [2] However, in at least one court case involving patents , the term "block letters" was found to include both upper and lower case .
A modifier letter, in the Unicode Standard, is a letter or symbol typically written next to another letter that it modifies in some way. They generally function like diacritics , changing the sound-values of the letter it is next to (usually the letter preceding it but sometimes the following letter instead).
Bopomofo was first introduced in China during the 1910s by the Beiyang government, where it was used alongside Wade–Giles, a romanization system which used a modified Latin alphabet. Today, Bopomofo is more common in Taiwan than on the mainland, and is used as the primary electronic input method for Taiwanese Mandarin , as well as in ...
The modifier letter prime (ʹ) is a spacing glyph. It is used in the romanization of Cyrillic for palatalized consonants (particularly for the letter ь ) and in the orthography of the Skolt Sami for suprasegmental palatalization .