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Hi everyone! I am looking for clarification around the use of the delete margin mark and the delete and close up margin mark.

I understand the difference however just unsure of the exact scenario to use one or the other. Does it depend if the delete mark is in the middle of a word or at the end of a word?

Thanks a lot,
Charlotte

[Val Gyde]

Hi Charlotte

To delete and replace a letter in a word, or a word in a sentence, you start with a correction in the text with a stroke through the letter or word, then you write the replacement letter or word in the margin followed by a separator stroke.

If however, you needed to just delete a letter in a word and not replace it with anything, and the gap needs to be closed up, then you use a delete and close-up mark. You use this correction to alert the typesetter that the deletion of a letter has created a gap that needs to be closed.

There is an explanation of both these corrections on page 37 of Tutorial 1.

You also need to use a delete and close-up correction when a deletion directly precedes a punctuation mark. There is an example of how this looks in line 3, Practice Exercise 4 on page 60 of Tutorial 1.

Hope this helps!

Val

 

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Perfect explanation thank you very much 🙂