The doctrine of a " scrivener's error " is the legal principle that a map-drafting or typographical error in a written contract may be corrected by oral evidence if the evidence is clear, convincing, and precise.

* He used to pay a finder ’ s fee of $ 2. 56 for any typographical errors or mistakes discovered in his books, because " 256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar ", and $ 0. 32 for " valuable suggestions ".

In typography and computing, the range of graphemes is broader than in a written language in other ways too: a typographical font often has to cope with a range of different languages each of which contribute their own graphemes, and it may also be required to print other symbols such as dingbats.

Between 1450 and 1455, Gutenberg printed several texts, some of which remain unidentified ; his texts did not bear the printer's name or date, so attribution is possible only from typographical evidence and external references.

Onca is the Portuguese onça, with the cedilla dropped for typographical reasons, found in English as ounce for the snow leopard, Uncia uncia.

For typographical convenience, the Legendre symbol is sometimes written as ( a | p ) or ( a / p ).

The overline is a typographical symbol similar to the macron, used in a number of ways in mathematics and science.

The first two are among the neatest Greek texts known, and are called O mirificam ; the third is a splendid masterpiece of typographical skill, and is known as the Editio Regia ; the edition of 1551 contains the Latin translation of Erasmus and the Vulgate, is not nearly as fine as the other three, and is exceedingly rare.

The computer is named " Wizard 0. 2 ", a typographical allusion to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

There are no specifically metric units for this particular purpose, although there is a DIN standard sometimes used in German publishing, which measures type sizes in multiples of 0. 25 mm, and proponents of the metrication of typography generally recommend the use of the millimetre for typographical measurements, rather than the development of new specifically typographical metric units.

An asterisk (*; Late, from, asteriskos, " little star ") is a typographical symbol or glyph.

In typography, a bullet ( < big >•</ big > ) is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list.

A dagger, or obelisk,, is a typographical symbol or glyph.

The pilcrow (¶), also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea ( Latin: a lineā, " off the line "), or blind P, is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs.

What is now known as The Chicago Manual of Style was first published in 1906 under the title Manual of Style: Being a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the University of Chicago Press, to which are appended specimens of type in use ( image right ).

It has been a point of contention ever since which is correct ; the latter is more correctly formed, but the convention in taxonomy is that the first name given stands, unless it is clearly a typographical error.

( Specifically, a thin space is endorsed for typesetting ; a regular word space is sufficient wherever typographical nicety is impractical.

Initially we learn that Langdon is a successful scholar that Brown named after John Langdon, a professor of typography at Drexel University who is known for his creation of ambigrams, typographical designs that can be read in multiple ways ; for example, both right side up and upside down.

* Generator for Esperanto typographical filler text

These elements do not cause the text to break when rendered in a paragraph format, but typically they cause the document processor to apply some kind of distinct typographical treatment to the enclosed text, by changing the font, size, or similar attributes.

In many languages, various typographical devices ( such as italicization ) may be used to place emphasis on particular words in written text ; see Emphasis ( typography ).

An optional, and usually omitted, fifth level can distinguish typographical differences, including whether the text is italic, normal or bold.

The InvisiClues text provided in the collection's hint book appeared to have been hastily transcribed, containing numerous typographical errors.

Examples include typographical corrections, formatting and presentational changes, and rearrangements of text without modification of its content.

All later editions featured the text from the 1931 / 32 editions however, a plethora of typographical errors existed, some of which were corrected in the later editions.

It should never be supplied to correct simple typographical errors ( which may be rectified in a later printing ) or to insert additions to, or revisions of, the printed text ( which should wait for the next edition of the book ).

Adrien Augier resumed the work, giving Lebeuf's text, though correcting the numerous typographical errors of the original edition ( 5 vols., 1883 ), and added a sixth volume containing an analytical table of contents.

It is designed to " amplify " the text by using a system of punctuation and other typographical features to bring out all shades of meaning present in the original texts.

In addition, the short text contains many typographical errors, especially involving the second character of Tianguan.

It is unclear if this is a typographical error and Hodgson intended " Moving Fur " instead ; the Collected Fiction edition and the Project Gutenberg electronic text show this correction.

In this typographical system chemical symbols are not used as mere abbreviations – though each consists of letters of the Latin alphabet – they are symbols intended to be used by peoples of all languages and alphabets.

Vertical typographical emoticons were published in 1881 by the U. S. satirical magazine Puck.

Merz 5, 1923, for instance, was a portfolio of prints by Hans Arp, Merz 8 / 9, 1924, was edited and typeset by El Lissitsky, Merz 14 / 15, 1925, was a typographical children's story entitled The Scarecrow by Schwitters, Kätte Steinitz and Theo Van Doesburg.

The genus now known as Pterodactylus was originally named Petro-Dactyle by Cuvier in 1809, though this was a typographical error, later corrected by him to Ptéro-Dactyle.

Many of these, especially the Greek editions ( which were printed with typefaces made by Claude Garamond ), were famous for their typographical elegance.

It suffered from the absence of any figure comparable to Fell, and its history was marked by ineffectual or fractious individuals such as the Architypographus and antiquary Thomas Hearne, and the flawed project of Baskett's first bible, a gorgeously designed volume strewn with misprints, and known as the Vinegar Bible after a glaring typographical error in St. Luke.

However, it has been shown that he must have prepared his copy by amending a copy of Letteris, because while there are many differences, it has many of the same typographical errors as Letteris.

Danielewski's work is characterized by experimental choices in form, such as intricate and multi-layered narratives, typographical variation, and inconsistent page layouts, otherwise known as visual writing or Ergodic literature.

A popular story says that the city was intended to have been named Mahkato, but a typographical error by a clerk established the name as Mankato.

More recent poets sometimes cited as influences by concrete poets include Guillaume Apollinaire, E. E. Cummings, for his various typographical innovations, and Ezra Pound, for his use of Chinese ideograms, as well as various dadaists.

* Crabby — An unhappy crab who speaks with frequent expletives ( denoted by stars and typographical symbols ).

Its typographical adventurousness was cited by El Lissitzky as one of the major forerunners of the revolution in graphic design in the 1920s and 1930s.

This work was dedicated to Francis I, who gave him the privilege of printing during ten years any works in Latin, Greek, Italian or French, which were the product of his own pen or had received his supervision ; and accordingly, on his release from an imprisonment occasioned by his homicide of a painter named Compaing, he began at Lyon his typographical and editorial labours.

An essay from the LilyPond website, written by LilyPond developers, explains some typographical issues addressed by LilyPond:

( in which he also played characters in several episodes ); and two action-adventure series The A-Team and Airwolf ( in which he also played the role of Doctor Charles Henry Moffet, Airwolf's twisted creator, in the pilot and the second-season episode " Moffett's Ghost " a typographical error by the studio's titles unit ).

More recently, the typographical von Economo's system was adopted by Bailey and von Bonin.

*" The plots of the Thaw and Lanark sections are independent of each other and cemented by typographical contrivances rather than formal necessity.

Since 1956, typographical arrangements of published editions are protected by copyright law.