An indication to the printer of an ommission in the copy indicated as ( ) showing the insertion.
Caret marks are most commonly used in proofreading and editing to indicate where something should be inserted or deleted in a document. They look like this:
^
Caret marks are also known as carets, insertions, or deletion symbols. In Microsoft Word, caret marks are generated using the ^ (caret) symbol.
When editing a document, caret marks are used to indicate where an insertion or deletion should be made. For example, if a sentence needs to be added to a paragraph, the caret mark is placed at the beginning of the line where the new sentence should be inserted:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
^Insert new sentence here.
If a sentence needs to be deleted, the caret mark is placed at the beginning of the line to be deleted:
^Delete this sentence.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Caret marks can also be used in Word to create superscripts and subscripts. To create a superscript, place the caret mark after the text that needs to be superscripted:
This is regular text.^This is superscripted text.
To create a subscript
Caret marks are important in printing because they help to ensure that the text is properly aligned on the page. Without caret marks, it would be difficult to tell where one line of text ends and the next begins, which could lead to a lot of errors in the final print product. By using caret marks, printers can avoid these errors and produce a high-quality print product.
In typesetting, a caret (/ˈkærɪt/) is a curved, V-shaped mark used in proofreading and editing to indicate where something is to be inserted, either as new text or as a correction. A common mnemonic for caret is “insert here”.
The caret is also sometimes used to refer to the spacing character ^ in ASCII (at code point 5Ehex) and other character sets. When used in this way, it is also sometimes called a circumflex.