User:Jacobbrett/English Punctuation Guide: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:09, 19 November 2010

N.B. Usage of preferred characters is optional and sometimes unwarranted.

Preferred Unicode characters for English punctuation
Preferred		Usage	Deprecates
‐	Hyphen	Joining words, e.g. co‐operate.	- (hyphen-minus)
‒	Figure Dash	used as a dash within numbers, e.g. 555‒1212
–	En Dash	Separate range of numbers (e.g. 1989‒90)
−	Minus sign	Indicate subtraction
—	Em Dash	Separate thoughts—like this	-- (hyphen-minus, ×2)
―	Horizontal bar Quotation dash	Introduce quoted text in some cases.	-- (hyphen-minus, ×2)
‘	Left single quotation mark	Indicate start of quoted text.	' (apostrophe-quote)
’	Right single quotation mark Apostrophe	Indicate end of quoted text, or omitted characters.
′	Prime	Minutes; feet.
“	Left double quotation mark	Indicate start of quoted text	" (quotation mark)
”	Right double quotation mark	Indicate end of quoted text
″	Double prime	Seconds; inches
…	Horizontal ellipsis	Indicate intentional omission in original text, or a pause in speech or thought.	... (Period/full stop ×3)
×	Multiplication	Indicate multiplication operation.	x (the letter 'x') when used to indicate multiplication

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 |Right single quotation mark<br/>Apostrophe
-|Indicate end of quoted text, or omitted characters.  Should not be used if the album clearly uses the typewriter apostrophe, as with [[release:1d86856f-73e9-4dc5-b2f1-7f2ed586ffea|this Frank Zappa album]].
+|Indicate end of quoted text, or omitted characters.
 |-
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