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  2. Telegram style - Wikipedia

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    Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese[ 1] is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters. It originated in the telegraph age when telecommunication consisted only of short messages transmitted by hand over the telegraph wire.

  3. Subscript and superscript - Wikipedia

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    The second typeface is Myriad Pro; the superscript is about 60% of the original characters, raised by about 44% above the baseline.) A subscript or superscript is a character (such as a number or letter) that is set slightly below or above the normal line of type, respectively. It is usually smaller than the rest of the text.

  4. Telephone keypad - Wikipedia

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    A telephone keypad using the ITU E.161 standard. A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized when the dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) system was developed in the Bell System in the United States in the 1960s – this ...

  5. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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    The letter m has three, the left, middle, and right stems. The central stroke of an s is known as the spine. [6] When the stroke is part of a lowercase [4] and rises above the height of an x (the x height), it is known as an ascender. [7] Letters with ascenders are b d f h k l. A stroke which drops below the baseline is a descender. [7]

  6. Text messaging - Wikipedia

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    Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, desktops / laptops, or another type of compatible computer. Text messages may be sent over a cellular network or may also be sent via satellite or Internet ...

  7. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Emphasis (typography) Example of black letter emphasis using the technique of changing fonts. In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. [ 1] It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech.

  8. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    All telephone numbers in Iran have 11 digits (initial 0 and ten digits). The first two or three digits after the zero are the area code. The possibilities are: (0xx) xxxx xxxx (for landlines), 09xx xxx xxxx (for cellphones) and 099xx xxx xxx (for MVNO ). When making a call within the same landline area code, initial 0 plus the area code must be ...

  9. Character encoding - Wikipedia

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    Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. [ 1] The numerical values that make up a character encoding are known as "code points" and collectively comprise a "code space", a ...