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In legal writing in the United States, Rule 5.3 in the Bluebook citation guide governs the use of ellipses and requires a space before the first dot and between the two subsequent dots. If an ellipsis ends the sentence, then there are three dots, each separated by a space, followed by the final punctuation (e.g. Hah . . . ?).
Historical style guides before the 20th century typically indicated that wider spaces were to be used between sentences. [3] Standard word spaces were about one-third of an em space, but sentences were to be divided by a full em-space. With the arrival of the typewriter in the late 19th century, style guides for writers began diverging from ...
A sentence is written without spaces and a space is typically used to mark the end of a clause or sentence. Tibetic The Tibetan script uses two different full stops: tshig-grub ( U+0F0D ། TIBETAN MARK SHAD ) marks the end of a section of text, while the don-tshan ( U+0F0E ༎ TIBETAN MARK NYIS SHAD ) is used to mark the end of a whole topic.
The International System of Units (SI) prescribes inserting a space between a number and a unit of measurement (the space being regarded as an implied multiplication sign) but never between a prefix and a base unit; a space (or a multiplication dot) should also be used between units in compound units. [23] 5.0 cm, not 5.0cm or 5.0 c m or 5.0 cms
Sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention. [1] Since the introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a Latin alphabet. [2]
When reading a PS single-spaced sentence, it can be hard to tell the difference between comma-space and period-space, or period-space (in reference to an acronym) and period-space (in reference to a sentence ending). With period-space-space, you know that it is the next sentence, without any room for confusion. -- SineSwiper 03:35, 10 Feb 2005 ...
In typesetting, a thin space set in addition to the word space achieves French spacing. [10] "French spacing leaves the same amount of white space after all punctuation marks, but leaves some thin space before the “tall” punctuation marks..." [11] "In ordinary spacing a full em occurs at the end of a sentence. In French spacing the end of a ...
One or more space characters read by conforming display-time processors of those markup languages are collapsed to 0 or 1 space, depending on their semantic context. For example, double (or more) spaces within text are collapsed to a single space, and spaces which appear on either side of the " = " that separates an attribute name from its ...