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Children were taught the art of letter-writing, as well; they were particularly taught to form letters neatly with instructive books filled with drawing and line instruction. [14] One of these such books, "Elementary Drawing Copy Books," incorporated traditional alphabet practice with instructions on drawing elements of the natural world. [14]
Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign: −: Minus sign: Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus: ×: Multiplication sign: X mark # Number sign: Numero sign. Also known as "octothorpe", "hash" and "hashtag sign" Pound sign № Numero sign: Number sign: Obelus: Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index ( ) Parenthesis: Bracket, Angle bracket ...
Example of etc. typeset with r rotunda in a Fraktur typeface. The abbreviation etc. was typeset using the Tironian et ⁊ , as ⁊c. in early incunables.Later, when typesets no longer contained a sort for the Tironian et, it became common practice to use the r rotunda glyph instead, setting ꝛc. for etc. [1] [failed verification]
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
Spencerian script is a handwriting script style based on Copperplate script that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925, [1] [2] and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter.
K. R. Norman writes that "diacriticals are a matter of spelling, not of aesthetics, or of whim, and result from an attempt to make the Roman alphabet cope with a sound pattern that needs an alphabet with more than 26 letters. Omitting diacritics is therefore a matter of misspelling and inserting them is a matter of correct spelling.
When scrolling through the font options, you'll see a message preview to the right to show you what the font will look like. 1. Click on the Settings icon . 2. Click on More Settings. 2. Click on Writing email. 3. Under "Default rich-text font" select your preferred font style and size.
The spacing diacritic should be used for a baseline letter with a superscript release, such as [tˢʼ] or [kˣʼ], where the scope of the apostrophe includes the non-superscript letter, but the combining apostrophe U+315 might be used to indicate a weakly articulated ejective consonant like [ᵗ̕] or [ᵏ̕], where the whole consonant is ...