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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script .
Two variants of the "bowtie" symbol used to represent a transmission gate in a circuit diagram. Source Created using Inkscape 0.91 Date 2015-11-10 Author Hiram J. Hackenbacker. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.
The tie is a symbol in the shape of an arc similar to a large breve, used in Greek, phonetic alphabets, and Z notation. It can be used between two characters with spacing as punctuation, non-spacing as a diacritic, or (underneath) as a proofreading mark. It can be above or below, and reversed.
A partly redacted German cheque, showing use of ⑂, ⑀ and ⑁ in the machine-readable line. The OCR-A subheading contains six characters taken from the OCR-A font described in the ISO 1073-1:1976 standard: U+2440 ⑀ OCR HOOK, U+2441 ⑁ OCR CHAIR, U+2442 ⑂ OCR FORK, U+2443 ⑃ OCR INVERTED FORK, U+2444 ⑄ OCR BELT BUCKLE, and U+2445 ⑅ OCR BOW TIE.
In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.
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 ...
Hazard symbols; List of mathematical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) Glossary of mathematical symbols; List of physical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) List of common physics notations (typically letters used as variable names in equations) Rod of Asclepius / Caduceus as a symbol of medicine
Among the fonts in widespread use, [6] [7] full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol and significant partial implementation of this range is provided by Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode, which include coverage for 83% (80 out of 96) and 82% (79 out of 96) of the symbols, respectively.