For clarity, also place a line through the spot where the space should appear.īold: The bold mark is a squiggly line under the word that should be bold. Space: The space mark is a circled pound sign (also called a number sign, hashtag, and octothorpe). Each curved line is accented with two horizontal lines. Parentheses: Parentheses marks are two curved lines surrounding the parenthetical text. Today’s post demonstrates ten more handwritten editing marks: parentheses, spaces, bold font, italic font, remove formatting, en dashes, em dashes, close spaces, hyphens, and stet.Įach mark is described below the graphic.
My previous post “ Ten Handwritten Editing Marks” demonstrated the copyediting and proofreading marks for deletions, insertions, transposed letters, paragraphs, periods, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, capitalization, and lowercasing.
