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The name of an individual work within the series name: the Star Wars franchise, named for the Star Wars film; the Three Colours trilogy, named for films with the prefix Three Colours. Do not capitalize or italicize descriptive terms that are not part of an official series title (as with "franchise" and "trilogy" in those two examples).
The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
Symbol Name Symbol(s) 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 ...
Words in italics indicate when a word is stressed or emphasized and when real world names are quoted. Italics and bold type are only supported by EIA-608. Some North American providers use this for narrated dialogue. Some providers use this for off-screen dialogue. Italics are also applied when a word is spoken in a foreign language.
Allstate's slogan "You're in good hands" was created in the 1950s by Allstate Insurance Company's sales executive, Davis W. Ellis, based on a similar phrase he used to reassure his wife about a doctor caring for their child. It has been the slogan ever since 1950. [7] Allstate also refer to themselves as the "Good Hands People".
Formal titles of franchises are proper names, but not italicized unless they coincide with the name of a work in the franchise that would itself be italicized. We would italicize this for the same reason we would italicize in this statement: "It was an elaborate Great Gatsby theme party costume", but not in this one: "It was an elaborate Middle ...
Emphasis is provided by using italics, used for key words, stage directions and the names of characters, and capitalization of key words. There are many designs. With both italics and boldface, the emphasis is correctly achieved by swapping into a different font of the same family; for example by replacing body text in Arial with its bold or ...
Names of genera are always italicized (and capitalized), even when not paired with a species name: Allosaurus, Falco, Anas. The entire binomial or trinomial scientific name is italicized, whether given in full or abbreviated: (Liriodendron tulipifera, N. v. piaropicola).