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  2. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    BSI proof-correction marks (conforming to BS 5261C:2005) as prepared by the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading; The style guide for publications of the European Union is presented in 24 European languages and includes a section on proofreading. Each edition has a sheet of proofreader's marks that appears to be the same apart from ...

  3. Underscore - Wikipedia

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    An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text. In proofreading, underscoring is a convention that says "set this text in italic type", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as an instruction to the printer. Its use to add emphasis in modern finished documents is generally avoided. [1]

  4. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    In proofreading, underlining (or underscoring) is a convention that says "set this text in italic type", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as an instruction to the printer. Its use to add emphasis in modern documents is a deprecated practice. [ 12 ]

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Caret (proofreading) Caret (computing) (^) Chevron (non-Unicode name) Caret, Circumflex, Guillemet, Hacek, Glossary of mathematical symbols ^ Circumflex (symbol) Caret (The freestanding circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics) Circumflex (diacritic), Caret (computing), Hat operator ̂: Circumflex (diacritic) Grave, Tilde

  6. Proofreading - Wikipedia

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    Proofreading is a phase in the process of publishing where galley proofs are compared against the original manuscripts or graphic artworks, ...

  7. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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    While in J a negative number is denoted by an underscore, as in _5. In C and some other computer programming languages, two plus signs indicate the increment operator and two minus signs a decrement; the position of the operator before or after the variable indicates whether the new or old value is read from it.

  8. Prolog syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    A single underscore (_) denotes an anonymous variable and means "any term". Unlike other variables, the underscore does not represent the same value everywhere it occurs within a predicate definition. A compound term is composed of an atom called a "functor" and a number of "arguments", which are again terms. Compound terms are ordinarily ...

  9. Pilcrow - Wikipedia

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    In typography, the pilcrow (¶) is a glyph used to identify a paragraph.In editorial production the pilcrow typographic character may also be known as the paragraph mark, the paragraph sign, the paragraph symbol, the paraph, and the blind P.