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<dashes>

dashes-element

<direction>
   <direction-type>
      <words font-style="italic">rit.</words>
   </direction-type>
   <direction-type>
      <dashes type="start" number="1" dash-length="7.5" space-length="7.5"/>
   </direction-type>
</direction>