Path line system

…For this purpose, a certain format and proofreading symbols are used. The formats used in foreign countries include the book system (marginal system), in which the corrections are crossed out and the corrections or symbols are written in the margin, and the path line system (pull-out system), in which a line is drawn from the corrections to the margin and the corrections are written in. In Japan, the pull-out system is widely used, and the first proofreading symbols were created in 1870 (Meiji 3) by Shozo Motoki, who founded letterpress printing, taking into account foreign methods and designed for Japanese texts. Today, the symbols that are widely used are those that were established in 1934 by the Proofreading Symbols Committee of the Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology, and then further refined and revised by the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology in 1965 and established as the Japanese Industrial Standard (JISZ8208). …

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…このために一定の様式と校正記号とが用いられる。外国で行われている様式には，訂正個所に斜線を記し，欄外に訂正字または記号を記入するブック･システムbook system(欄外式)と，訂正個所から欄外に線を引いて訂正字を記入するパスライン･システムpath line system(引出し式)とがある。日本では多く引出し式が採られ，校正記号については，活版印刷を創業した本木昌造が1870年(明治3)に外国の方式を勘案して和文向きに作成したものが初めであるが，今日では，1934年に日本印刷学会校正記号委員会が定め，その後65年に工業技術院がそれをさらに取捨整理して日本工業規格(JISZ8208)として制定した記号が普及している。…

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