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Words with a horizontal line through them
Strikethrough, or strikeout, is a typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through their middle. Less common alternative forms of strikethrough are an X or a forward slash typed over each letter. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: StrikethroughA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Interview with Silas Munro, Author of Strikethrough! Typographic Messages of ProtestInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: My Fair PotionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Quality signaling via strikethrough pricesCited 6 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun An horizontal line overlaid on other characters.
Noun A horizontal or oblique line overlaid on individual characters.
Verb Alternative form of strike through.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Quality signaling via strikethrough prices
Strikethrough: review of research on mattress cover performance
The strikethrough: an approach to regulatory writing and professional discipline
Handwritten text generation and strikethrough characters augmentation
Variability of laboratory coat resistance to blood strikethrough
Strikethrough Calcutta: Poetics and Politics of Interruption in Satyajit Ray's and Mrinal Sen's Calcutta Trilogies
Clinical Experience with Disposable Isolation Gown Selection, Strikethrough, and Reporting
Showthrough and Strikethrough print defect detection using histogram equalization based computer vision method
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕My Fair PotionA. E. McKenna · 2024
Mal's spell bookTina McLeef · 2015
How to be a bawseLilly Singh · 2017- 📕StrikethroughLetterform Archive, Silas Munro · 2022
Mal's spell book IITina McLeef · 2017
Superpac StrikethroughStewert James · 2013- 📕Operation RegalUnited States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service. Center for Cryptologic History · 1988
- 📕Space surveillance SIGINT Program (C) [strikethrough]H. D. Wagoner · 1980
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