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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    A good example of this is the List of Benet Academy alumni. (See also Format of the first sentence below.) When the page title is used as the subject of the first sentence, it may appear in a slightly different form, and it may include variations, including plural forms (particularly if they are unusual or confusing) or synonyms. [E] [F]

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Terms in description lists (example: Glossary of the American trucking industry) Table headers and captions (but not image captions) A link to the page on which that link appears, called a self link; Manually added boldface markup in such cases will end up making excessive double-bold (900 weight) fonts.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    If the quotation is a single word or a sentence fragment, place the terminal punctuation outside the closing quotation mark. When quoting a full sentence, the end of which coincides with the end of the sentence containing it, place terminal punctuation inside the closing quotation mark. Miller wanted, he said, "to create something timeless".

  5. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    word choice/wrong word: Incorrect or awkward word choice hr # Insert hair space: s/b: should be: Selection should be whatever edit follows this mark s/r: substitute/replace: Make the substitution tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected vf: verb form (Mostly used when translating) The version of the verb is used incorrectly e: ending

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Glossaries

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    Every article on Wikipedia with a title in the form "Glossary of subject terms", or similar, is such a glossary, as are the glossary sections inside some articles. These are distinct from outlines, which are titled in the form "Outline of subject" and may also include definitions, but are organized as a hierarchy and use their own style of formatting not covered in this guideline.

  7. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    One example: when justification is used in narrow columns, extremely large spaces may appear between words on lines with only two or three words. Another example: when the spaces between words line up approximately above one another in several loose lines, a distracting river of white space may appear. [ 4 ]

  8. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. [1] When split across pages, they occur at either the head or foot of a page (or column), unaccompanied by additional lines from the same paragraph ...

  9. Compliments slip - Wikipedia

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    Example of compliments slip, 1951. A compliments slip (or with compliments slip) is a slip of paper that contains the same name and address information that would be on a letterhead of formal letter stationery, the pre-printed salutation "with compliments" or "with our/my compliments", and space afterwards for a short handwritten message to be added.