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Literature | Marks in Grammar and Printing Printers' marks on the first page of a sheet are called Signatures. (See Letters At Foot Of Page .) Serifs are the strokes which finish off Roman letters, top and bottom. A, B, C, are "block" letters, or "sans serifs." Over the second of two vowels, as aërial, is called "diæresis," and in French, trema. ' An acute accent. In Greek it indicates a rise in the voice. It was not used till Greek became familiar to the Romans. ` A grave accent. In Greek it indicates a fall of the voice. It was not used till Greek became familiar to the Romans. Over a vowel, as ö, ii, is called in German zwerpunct. Over a vowel, as a, is called in Danish umlauf. A circumflex over the letter n (as Oñoro, in Spanish, is called a tilde (2 syl.). A circumflex in French indicates that a letter has been abstracted, as être for "estre. ' T between two hyphens in French, as parle-t-il? is called "t ephelcystic. " (See N.) The Tironian sign (q.v.). (See And.) - Hyphen, as horse-guards. - joining a pronoun to its verb in French, as irai-je, donnait-on, is called le trait d'union. , under the letter c in French, is called a cedilla, and indicates that the letter = s. (See Printers Marks.) A pilcrow, to call attention to a statement. A blind P, marks a new paragraph indirectly connected with preceding matter. () Called parentheses, and [] Called brackets, separate some explanatory or collateral matter from the real sequence. Is a comma; ; is a semicolon; : is a colon; . is a point or full stop. - or ... in the middle or at the end of a sentence is a break, and shows that something is suppressed. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 52 4B 53 49 4E 47 52 41 4D 4D 41 52 41 4E 44 50 52 49 4E 54 49 4E 47 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010010 01001011 01010011 00100000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01000111 01010010 01000001 01001101 01001101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001001 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A R K S   I N   G R A M M A R   A N D   P R I N T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0052 004B 0053 0049 004E 0047 0052 0041 004D 004D 0041 0052 0041 004E 0044 0050 0052 0049 004E 0054 0049 004E 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473552455324348241523547473552235483825052434854434841 |
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