>i always thought that when a letter or word was in a news report and it had brackets, it was to clarify
>it meant that the letter was not in the original but he did not mean "hat character" but [w]hat
>or they will put a persons name in [] to make it clear who they are talking about
>"it was clear that he [bob] was in on the crime"
I think your rendition of punctuation norms is on the mark.
As for me, I have thought for a long time that Q team posts on this board rather more often than some anons suspect.