| Delete; to remove a letter or word not wanted. |
| l.c. | Lower case; to be a small letter, and not a capital. |
| cap. | Capital; to be a capital letter, and not a small. |
| w.f. | Wrong fount; the letter is not the same type as the rest. |
| trs. | Transpose; to alter the position of a line or word. |
| Marks a broken letter. |
| Space to be inserted. |
| A hyphen to be inserted. |
| A dash to be inserted. |
| A full stop to be inserted. |
| To join a word which it is not intended to divide. |
| A quadrat, or some other piece not wanted, to be made not to print. |
| Indent. | To set back the line to the place marked. |
| Gauge. | To bring up an indented line to the place marked. |
| or | To straighten a line which has been wrongly leaded perpendicularly or has something making the line crooked horizontally. |
| Marks a letter which has been turned upside down or otherwise. |
| Stet. | A word marked through by mistake and to be retained is underlined with dots ......... and “stet” written in the margin. |
