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  Encyclopedia: Space (punctuation)
A dash is a punctuation mark, and is not to be confused with the hyphen, which is shorter, and which has quite different uses.
Punctuation marks are written symbols that do not correspond to either phonemes (sounds) of a spoken language nor to lexemes (words and phrases) of a written language, but which serve to organize or clarify written language.
Punctuation spaces are exactly the same as en-spaces, except that the width of a punctuation space is usually that of a comma or period (it does depend on each font maker to some extent).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Space-(punctuation)   (1254 words)

  
 Space (punctuation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A space is a punctuation convention for providing interword separation in some scripts, including the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic.
In computers, a space is represented by a space character.
Spaces were not used to separate words until roughly 600–800 AD.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hair_space   (162 words)

  
 Info and facts on 'Space (punctuation)'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Spaces were not used to separate words until roughly 600 (additional info and facts about 600) –800 AD.
Other kinds of spaces exist for special uses: for example an em dash (additional info and facts about em dash) can optionally be surrounded with a so-called hair space, Unicode character 8202, or U+200A.
Unfortunately, very few user agent (additional info and facts about user agent) s are able to render a hair space correctly: in most cases the result is an unwanted symbol or a question mark on the screen (depending on the font (A specific size and style of type within a type family)).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/space_(punctuation).htm   (608 words)

  
 Ending Punctuation for Bibliographic Data
Does not end with a mark of punctuation unless the last word in the field is an abbreviation, initial/letter, or data that ends with a mark of punctuation.
Does not end with a mark of final punctuation unless the last word in the field is an abbreviation, initial/letter, or data that ends with a mark of punctuation.
Punctuation is generally not included between the parts of the curriculum objective and related curriculum codes and correlation factors.
www.itcompany.com /inforetriever/punctuation.htm   (6044 words)

  
 GW House Style
There is only one space after a period, colon, or semicolon, not two spaces as in regular typing.
GW house style ellipsis is three dots with no space between them and a word space placed before and after the ellipsis.
Ellipsis and other punctuation: When other punctuation precedes or follows an ellipsis, there is a word space between the punctuation mark and the ellipsis.
www.graphwest.com /Style.html   (864 words)

  
 criticalissues.html
Scholarship on Dickinson's punctuation limits itself in two key ways: by defining punctuation along conventional, bibliographic lines, and by presenting it as an effect on the eye or the ear, but not on both at the same time.
Brita Lindberg also characterizes Dickinson's punctuation along conventional lines, finding that although Dickinson's "marks" vary greatly in slant and position, they may be "profitably reduce[d to] the ones adopted by the Harvard edition: the question mark, the exclamation point, the period, the comma, and the dash" (354).
Nevertheless, they display two key problems: punctuation is implied as a separate category from space; and the experiences of the eye and ear -- although validly seen as simultaneous and interrelated -- are discussed primarily as effects of "letters" and not of space, lineation, and other forms of punctuation.
www.mith.umd.edu /courses/amvirtual/punctuation/criticalissues.html   (1026 words)

  
 formatpage.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the days of typewriters it was customary to put two spaces after a period.
If you put a space between the quote mark and the text, the quote mark will curve in the wrong direction.
There is no space on either side of a hyphen.
spruce.flint.umich.edu /~cakers/Eng112/spacepunct.html   (166 words)

  
 Personal Business Letter Guide
Single spacing is used for the body of the letter within paragraphs and double spacing is used between paragraphs.
Open punctuation is compatible with block format because both save time and reduce errors.
If the letter is addressed to a company, the address may include an attention line (second line of the address) to call the letter to the attention of a specific person, department, or job title.
www.lcusd.k12.ca.us /lchs/pcyhaniuk/PBLGuide.html   (742 words)

  
 Space (punctuation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aside from this use, spaces and other whitespace are usually ignored by most modern programming languages; Python is one exception.
In HTML and XML multiple spaces or new line characters collapse into one single space, unless they are contained in a HTML tag such as
, the xml:space="preserve" XML attribute is used, or CSS defines whitespace="pre" (or pre-line or pre-wrap).	
Unfortunately, very few user agents are able to render a hair space correctly: in most cases the result is an unwanted symbol or a question mark on the screen (depending on the font).
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/space__punctuation_   (572 words)

  
 Ch
Space between words is a segmental unit: like the punctuation marks, it occupies the whole of one position in linear sequence.
We have emphasised that punctuation cannot be regarded as a means of representing the prosodic properties of utterances, but there is no doubt that there is some significant degree of correlation between the use of delimiting commas and the likelihood that the constituent concerned would be set apart prosodically in speech.
Punctuation outside the parentheses depends on the requirements of the containing sentence: it is the same as it would be if the parenthesised element were omitted.
www-csli.stanford.edu /~nunberg/CGE.html   (16120 words)

  
 CSS3 Text Module   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
White space processing in the context of CSS is the mechanism by which all white space characters are interpreted for rendering purpose.
When white space characters are collapsed for rendering purpose, the text decoration style applied to the collapsed set is the one that would be applied to the first white space character of the original sequence.
The white space characters are collapsed according to the rules described in White space processing.
www.w3.org /TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514   (11000 words)

  
 Punctuation handout.html
Punctuation is also not the same in all languages.
There are six kinds of punctuation used with quotation marks: (1) comma and period, (2) question mark and exclamation point, (3) semicolon and colon.
The punctuation that indicates intonation (rising for a question mark, emphatic for an exclamation point) goes inside or outside of quotation marks depending on whether the intonation applies to the quoted words or the sentence of which the quoted words are part.
www.nyu.edu /classes/copyXediting/Punctuation.html   (4325 words)

  
 Punctuation Puzzles
Em-dashes concern formatting, and their use either with or without spacing is neither correct nor incorrect — it's purely a matter of typographical style.
With new punctuation rules (such as the comma or period inside the quotation marks), we are confused.
Answer: Semicolons punctuate series of clauses or phrases with internal punctuation: for instance, a phrase or clause that uses commas; a group of words, such as apples, oranges, and bananas; and other examples, such as a series of independent clauses.
www.protrainco.com /info/essays/punctuation.htm   (2057 words)

  
 6. Series Area
Precede the title of a subseries by a period, space unless the subseries title is preceded by a series alphabetic or numeric designation, in which case, use a comma, space.
Punctuation: The acronym ISSN is followed by a space and two groups of four digits separated by a hyphen.
Precede the title of a subseries by a period, space unless the subseries title is preceded by a series alphabetic or numeric designation, in which case, see below.
www.loc.gov /catdir/cpso/chapter6.html   (1971 words)

  
 Character design standards - Space Characters
The no-break space is the same as the word space character with the added functionality of providing a way to prevent two words from being separated by a line break.
The majority of these characters are traditional typographic space values or characters that are related to other character's width criteria.
Punctuation space U+2008 - Standard setting is equal to the advance width of the period U+002e and comma U+002c.
www.microsoft.com /typography/developers/fdsspec/spaces.htm   (894 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cataloging punctuation that separates subfields is distinguished by each mark having a space before and a space after it, except for the comma and the period.
Certain punctuation on the title page is altered in the transcription to prevent confusion with punctuation used for cataloging purposes.
The 600, 610, and 611 fields use the same punctuation and subfields for personal, corporate, and conference names as their 1xx field counterparts.
www.lib.auburn.edu /catalog/docs/marcpunct.html   (4921 words)

  
 Sample of Collins College Bilingual: French - Italian (Tagged Format)
It should be separated from the preceding data by a character space and followed by a character space.
Translation equivalent to be output in ROMAN and preceded by the cultural equivalent symbol, ÷, and a character space.
Punctuation All punctuation which is not explicit but is generated by the tag sequence or other markers, should be in ROMAN and closed up to the preceding item and followed by a character space.
crl.nmsu.edu /Tools/CLR/Fren.Ital.tagging.html   (3442 words)

  
 Chicago Manual of Style - Q & A - Punctuation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chicago style discourages the use of italics for emphasis and forbids multiple punctuation; both are rarely appropriate in scholarly writing.
With the author-date system, I know that punctuation is supposed to follow the reference—for example, “And his other misfortune” (Brown 2001, 1a).
Although the British agree with you and punctuate accordingly, the time-honored convention in American-style punctuation is to put the period inside the quotation marks.
www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.Punctuation.html   (1380 words)

  
 IASA Cataloguing Rules
Precede each mark of prescribed punctuation by a space and follow it by a space, except for the comma, full stop, hyphen and double hyphen and closing parentheses and square brackets.
When an element ends with an abbreviation followed by a full stop or ends with the mark of omission and the punctuation following that element either is or begins with a full stop, omit the full stop that constitutes or begins the prescribed punctuation.
When punctuation occurring within or at the end of an element is retained, give it with normal spacing.
www.iasa-web.org /icat/00_C.htm   (554 words)

  
 Why 1 space after sentence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Because they are monospaced, you need to type two spaces after periods to separate one sentence from the next.
Thus the single space between sentences is enough to separate them visually, and two spaces creates a disturbing gap.
Of course, this one-space rule applies just as well to the spacing after colons, semi-colons, question marks, quotation marks, exclamation points, or any other punctuation you can think of.
www.westminster.edu /staff/nak/courses/spaces.htm   (335 words)

  
 space - Wiktionary
A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a set of coordinates.
The number of coordinates specifying a point and the number of mutually perpendicular axes along which the coordinates lie are the same, and that is the number of dimensions of the space.
We live in a space that has at least four dimensions: up-down, left-right, forward-backward, and future-past.
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/space   (207 words)

  
 johnaugust.com » Fixing double-spaces after periods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In programs that allow it, a technically-savvy wordsmith could use regular expressions to do all of this in one step, matching the period only in cases where it is followed by exactly one space.
You add the Line Spacing cheats that John’s brought up previously, and you’ve got six hours of screen time crammed into a script that appears to be barely ninety pages long.
I’ve always double-spaced after any punctuation but commas (except for starting a quote which gets one space after the comma but before the parenthese).
johnaugust.com /archives/2005/fixing-double-spaces-after-periods   (1202 words)

  
 Bill Hill - There is only one space after a period
Otherwise, one space is the way to go as proportional fonts are designed to use the appropriate amount of space required by each character.
That HTML automatically compresses two (or more) spaces into one is not the technical equivalent to having two spaces after a period on a typewriter.
Additionally, two spaces provides the same differentiating effect with respect to the comma, which is a very visually similar punctuation.
channel9.msdn.com /ShowPost.aspx?PostID=112   (2118 words)

  
 A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
Others prefer to insert hair spaces on either side of the em dash, but this is problematic with some web browsers (see the section on spaces for more detail).
Both are visibly wider than a normal space, and once again, Arial Unicode MS is the only mainstream font that includes both, even though they are part of the official HTML 4.01 specification.
But if it indicates that the thought or quote is just trailing off at the end of a sentence, then only the ellipsis is used, to clarify that no words from a quotation were omitted, as would be the case if the additional period were there.
www.alistapart.com /articles/emen   (2410 words)

  
 Archive Journal
The rule should be that punctuation, any punctuation, that's part of what's quoted goes inside and that punctuation, any punctuation, that's part of the wrapping sentence goes outside.
The ellipsis may lead from the word ended down into the space or, at other times, it may lead up out of the space and attach to the new word.
Sometimes, a space may be at each end as is always the case with a dash.
home.earthlink.net /~acorioso/ArchJournal2.htm   (11524 words)

  
 Punctuation
Leave a space when the symbol is all letters (45 kg), but no space if a non-letter is used 32°C, Can$10.
Imperial: leave space between the three elements of 100 sq.
No space before or after (except poetry, when used to indicate a line break: no space before, one space after).
www.stage-door.org /stampact/punc.html   (1826 words)

  
 Fourteen Punctuation Spacing Rules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Space twice after the punctuation at the end of a sentence
Space once after a closed parenthesis but do not space before it
Space once before and after the at sign, except in e-mail addresses
www.zianet.com /joblack/web/Punctuation/001.html   (118 words)

  
 English Punctuation!
In general, put no spaces before punctuation, but always put a space between words.
In general, if you use an adjective-plus-noun (or adverb-adjective) phrase to modify another noun the adjective and noun should be joined with a hyphen.
Turing visited the United States in 1942 and apparently talked with John von Neuman (1903-1957), a mathematician, but had little impact on the American development of the computer until after the war,at which time there was extensive American-English discussion on the subject of computation.
www.u-aizu.ac.jp /~tripp/punc.html   (551 words)

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