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<h4 class="subsubsection" id="Typographical-symbols">4.6.5.2 Typographical symbols</h4>
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<p><samp class="file">ms</samp> provides a few strings to obtain typographical symbols not
easily entered with the keyboard. These and many others are available
as special character escape sequences—see the <cite class="cite">groff_char<span class="r">(7)</span></cite>
man page.
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<dt class="deffn" id="index-_005c_002a_005b_002d_005d"><span class="category-def">String: </span><span><strong class="def-name"><code class="t">\*[-]</code></strong><a class="copiable-link" href='#index-_005c_002a_005b_002d_005d'> ¶</a></span></dt>
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<p>Interpolate an em dash.
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<dt class="deffn" id="index-_005c_002a_005bQ_005d"><span class="category-def">String: </span><span><strong class="def-name"><code class="t">\*[Q]</code></strong><a class="copiable-link" href='#index-_005c_002a_005bQ_005d'> ¶</a></span></dt>
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double quotes otherwise. <code class="code">\*Q</code> is the left quote and <code class="code">\*U</code>
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