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- List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
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
- Slash (punctuation) - Wikipedia
The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names Once used as the equivalent of the modern period and comma, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, as a date separator, or to connect alternative terms
- Apostrophe - Wikipedia
Introduced by Geoffroy Tory (1529), [5] the apostrophe was used in place of a vowel letter to indicate elision (as in l'heure in place of la heure) It was also frequently used in place of a final "e" (which was still pronounced at the time) when it was elided before a vowel, as in un' heure
- Exclamation mark - Wikipedia
Graphically, the exclamation mark is represented by variations on the theme of a period with a vertical line above One theory of its origin posits derivation from a Latin exclamation of joy, namely io, analogous to "hooray"; copyists wrote the Latin word io at the end of a sentence, to indicate expression of joy
- Check mark - Wikipedia
The check mark is a predominant affirmative symbol of convenience in the English-speaking world because of its instant and simple composition
- Backslash - Wikipedia
The backslash \ is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics It is the mirror image of the common slash It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s
- Full stop - Wikipedia
The full stop symbol derives from the Greek punctuation introduced by Aristophanes of Byzantium in the 3rd century BCE in Alexandria [citation needed] In his system, there was a series of dots whose placement determined their meaning
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