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This isn't exactly right -- in Fancy 2, the slashes ''overlay'' the letters they are cancelling out -- an effect we can't figure out how to make appear here or on most modern wordprocesssing software.
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This isn't exactly right — in [[Fancy 2]], the slashes ''overlay'' the letters they are cancelling out — an effect we can't figure out how to make appear here or on most modern wordprocesssing software.
  
Besides the approach used above, the legal strikeout font --this sort of thing-- is a reasonable way to indicate semi-cancellation. We use both quite indiscriminately in Fancy 3.  The key thing is to pretend to hide the supposedly unwanted text.
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Besides the approach used above, the legal strikeout font <strike>this sort of thing</strike> is a reasonable way to indicate semi-cancellation. We use both quite indiscriminately in Fancy 3.  The key thing is to pretend to hide the supposedly unwanted text.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 09:56, 6 October 2020

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
Material struck out with virgules so that, tho ostensibly a typo, it remains legible (as it was intended to be). This h/e/r/e/ is a specimen, /y/o/u/-/a/l/l/.

This isn't exactly right — in Fancy 2, the slashes overlay the letters they are cancelling out — an effect we can't figure out how to make appear here or on most modern wordprocesssing software.

Besides the approach used above, the legal strikeout font this sort of thing is a reasonable way to indicate semi-cancellation. We use both quite indiscriminately in Fancy 3. The key thing is to pretend to hide the supposedly unwanted text.


Publishing