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Subject:Editing marks - two questions? From:"Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:15:19 -0500
Justin Ressler wondered: <<In a recent Word document, when using the
show/hide paragraph marks feature, I encountered a hard return arrow
enclosed by two pipes. |return arrow|>>
Never seen it before, but I've forwarded your message to copyediting-l to
see if anyone there recognizes it. I've asked them to respond to you
directly, so if you do get an answer, please copy it to techwr-l for our
benefit.
<<What is the mark below the ~ (tilde) called?>>
In French, the ` is called an "accent grave" (with a soft a like in gravel,
not pronounced like the place you bury a body); I believe the same term is
used in English, though with the word order reversed (grave accent).
--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
580 boul. St-Jean
Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."--Goethe
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