Hand-book of punctuation

by William Johnson Cocker

2. The period, dash, hyphen, quotation marks, apostrophe, and reference marks should be distinguished in the margin, thus:—

For illustrations, see 6, 10.

3. If it is necessary to change a capital letter to a small letter, draw a line through the capital, and either write a small letter in the margin, or the abbreviation l.c., lower case, which indicates that a common letter is to be used; as, 3.

4. The abbreviation w.f., wrong font, indicates that a letter is of improper size.

II. Wrong Words.—When an entire word is incorrect, a straight line should be drawn through it, and the proper word written in the margin; as, 5.

REMARK.

When it is necessary to change a word, printed in capitals, to small letters, draw a line through the word, and write l.c. in the margin; as, 16. See I., Rem. 3.

III. Omissions.—If a letter, punctuation mark, or word is omitted, the omission should be indicated by a caret, and the omitted letter, punctuation mark, or word placed in the margin; as, 3, 6.

REMARKS.