If you need to make a major change that involves several sentences or a paragraph, please type the new text in its entirety on a separate sheet.To show that a correction needs to ride above the text baseline-such as for a superscripted footnote number, apostrophe, or quotation mark-write the number or mark in the margin and place an inverted caret (a V shape) beneath and up around it.Out in the margin, write a space sign, like so: # To show that a space needs to be added, insert a caret within the text to indicate where it goes.If you need some text to be deleted, draw the single horizontal line through it, and to confirm no text will replace it, simply put a delete mark out in the margin, like so:.Avoid using all capital letters, for example, unless the correction or addition should indeed be set in all capital letters. Write corrections and additions in the uppercase and lowercase letters that should actually appear in the text.Out in the margin, simply place your corrections in order and separate them from each other with a slash mark. If you need to make several separate corrections within one line, use the caret or strikethrough line as needed within the line.Within the lines of type, make just two marks:ġ) a caret (^) where you need something inserted (and then write those words or punctuation out in the margin, in line with the line of text where they go)Ģ) a single line through one letter or punctuation mark (vertical) or through a whole word or multiple words (horizontal).Avoid trying to squeeze handwriting between the narrow lines of type. Use only the ample blank margins for writing your corrections.If you know you have a “hasty hand,” try pretending that you are about eight years old and writing each letter for a grade in penmanship class, or even that you’re teaching alphabet letter formation to a child. Form your letters and punctuation marks neatly to help ensure your corrections will be accurately read and correctly made.Write in a bright color of ink that will be easily distinguishable from black type.(Making changes back in your original manuscript file, for example, is not helpful because that stage has gone by.) Write your corrections directly on the proof pages.Currently displaying Unicode version 15.0.0. This is, a site dedicated to all things characters, letters and Unicode. The formal ASCII standard (X) calls it a 'circumflex'. The name 'caret' arose from its visual similarity to the original proofreader's caret, a mark used in proofreading to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document. The symbol has a variety of uses in programming and mathematics. The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:Ĭaret is the name used familiarly for the character ^, provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing ⇧ Shift+ 6.

The CLDR project labels this character “caret” for use in screen reading software. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. In text U+2038 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane. U+2038 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). Copy to clipboard share this codepoint embed this codepoint

Inverted caret