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    This document provides a key of typographic symbols and their meanings, including formatting instructions like italic, bold, uppercase, lowercase as well as punctuation marks. It explains things like inserting spaces, beginning new paragraphs, setting text farther left or right, and includes special characters like em dashes, en dashes, hyphens and their uses. The key is intended to help communicate typesetting instructions between people.

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    This document provides a key of typographic symbols and their meanings, including formatting instructions like italic, bold, uppercase, lowercase as well as punctuation marks. It explains things like inserting spaces, beginning new paragraphs, setting text farther left or right, and includes special characters like em dashes, en dashes, hyphens and their uses. The key is intended to help communicate typesetting instructions between people.

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    This document provides a key of typographic symbols and their meanings, including formatting instructions like italic, bold, uppercase, lowercase as well as punctuation marks. It explains things like inserting spaces, beginning new paragraphs, setting text farther left or right, and includes special characters like em dashes, en dashes, hyphens and their uses. The key is intended to help communicate typesetting instructions between people.

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    Symbol

    Uploaded by

    June Worawee Buasai
    This document provides a key of typographic symbols and their meanings, including formatting instructions like italic, bold, uppercase, lowercase as well as punctuation marks. It explains things like inserting spaces, beginning new paragraphs, setting text farther left or right, and includes special characters like em dashes, en dashes, hyphens and their uses. The key is intended to help communicate typesetting instructions between people.

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    Symbol Meaning Example

    delete
    close up

    delete and close up

    caret

    insert a space

    space evenly

    let stand
    transpose
    used to separate two or more
    marks and often as a concluding  
    stroke at the end of an insertion
    set farther to the left
    set farther to the right
    set as ligature (such as )
    align horizontally
    align vertically
    broken character
    indent or insert em quad space  
    begin a new paragraph  

    spell out

    set in CAPITALS

    set inSMALL CAPITALS


    set in lowercase
    set in italic
    set in roman

    set in boldface
    hyphen multi-colored

    en dash 1965–72

    em (or long) dash Now—at last!—we know.

    superscript or superior

    subscript or inferior

    centered

    comma  
    apostrophe  
    period  
    semicolon  

    colon  

    quotation marks  

    parentheses  

    brackets  
    query to author: has this been
     
    set as intended?
    push down a work-up

    turn over an inverted letter

    wrong font

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