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A looped stroke in the margin instructing that marked text be removed.
Also known as: Delete symbol on a proof, Curly d mark
A curled loop with a tail, from the Latin deleatur. Paired with a strike-through in the text, it is the most frequently used mark in the system and the one whose form is most consistent across traditions.
A looped marginal mark instructing that the text struck through in the line be deleted, from the Latin deleatur — let it be deleted.
Paired with a horizontal strike-through or a diagonal stroke in the text, which locates the material to be removed.
Where deletion should also close the gap, the delete mark is combined with the close-up mark; deleting without closing leaves a space, which for a single letter is usually not what is wanted.
A curved loop written like a lowercase d with its ascender curled over to the left, ending in a downward tail.
One of the marks in the standard proof-correction vocabulary.
Delete and close-up are combined where the gap should not remain.