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  2. Dash - Wikipedia

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    The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline.The most common versions are the en dash –, generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the em dash —, longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontal bar —, whose length varies ...

  3. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    The end of a sentence. ¶ Pilcrow: Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P: Section sign ('Silcrow') ⌑ Pillow (non-Unicode name) 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the 'Square lozenge' in the travel industry. The generic currency sign is superficially similar | Pipe (non-Unicode name) (Unicode name is "vertical bar ...

  4. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    The pairing of the two terms with their definitions has no consistent standard across the industry; some sources use the opposite meanings as others. Additionally, runts (which varying sources also call widows or orphans) are cases where a paragraph anywhere on a page ends with a very short final line. They give an impression of excessive empty ...

  5. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Example of Use Dele: Delete: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ Begin new paragraph: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ no: Remove paragraph break: Caret [a] (Unicode U+2038, 2041, 2380) ‸ or ⁁ or ⎀ Insert # Insert space: Close up (Unicode U+2050) ⁐ Tie words together, eliminating a space: I was reading the news⁐paper this morning ...

  6. English punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. [1] English punctuation has two complementary aspects: phonological punctuation, linked to how the sentence can be read aloud, particularly to pausing; [2] and grammatical punctuation, linked to the structure of the sentence. [3]

  7. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections. [ 2 ] [ further explanation needed ] The alphabet -based writing began with no spaces, no capitalization , no vowels (see abjad ), and with only a few punctuation ...

  8. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    Em dash (— or —, MOS:EMDASH) are even longer and are used solely to set aside a phrase—like this—in a sentence. Em dashes and en dashes, when used to set off parentheticals, are interrupters, along with parentheses (round brackets) and commas; [1] the principal differences are that parentheses are used to offset text of an optional or ...

  9. Compound point - Wikipedia

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    The compound point is an obsolete typographical construction. Keith Houston reported that this form of punctuation doubling, which involved the comma dash (,—), the semicolon dash (;—), the colon dash, or "dog's bollocks" (:—), and less often the stop-dash (.—) arose in the seventeenth century, citing examples from as early as 1622 (in an edition of Othello).