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What do you call a symbol "—||—" for repeating something that has already been written? Does it have a name at all?
FumbleFingers commented:
I'd say it's just a somewhat florid / ornate (non-standard? idiosyncratic?) ditto mark.
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Nested quotations & internal commas: an edge case
What did Bob say? "Hello." — probably with a period after it. One convention (I believe there are others) is to turn periods into commas when you quote text and the period doesn't fall at ...
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What do you call a symbol "—||—" for repeating something that has already been written? Does it have a name at all?
As Fumblefingers noted, this is a form of ditto mark.
Wikipedia notes that the form -----"----- is used in Russian, Swedish, and Norwegian.
Also, some extension of Latex can do these
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