Sentence spacing guidance is provided in many language and style guides. The majority of style guides that use a Latin-derived alphabet as a language...
64 KB (7,243 words) - 22:42, 16 April 2025
English writing style Grammar Prescription and description Punctuation Sentence spacing in language and style guides Spelling Style guide Stylistics "ISO...
28 KB (2,301 words) - 08:27, 31 March 2025
Sentence spacing in language and style guides Spelling Style sheet (disambiguation) Shigwan, Ramchandra (2016). "Chicago and Apa Style Manual in Research...
11 KB (1,124 words) - 13:44, 3 March 2025
Sentence spacing Sentence spacing in language and style guides Sentence spacing in digital media Sentence spacing studies Orphans and widows Style guides...
21 KB (2,669 words) - 12:02, 3 April 2025
introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a Latin alphabet. These include...
91 KB (9,883 words) - 23:41, 17 April 2025
sentence spacing Punctuation Sentence spacing Sentence spacing in language and style guides Sentence spacing studies Orphans and widows Style guides Typography...
11 KB (1,293 words) - 23:52, 28 November 2024
(MLA) style - most often used in English studies, and literary criticism Sentence spacing in language and style guides Manuals & Writing Guides at University...
6 KB (698 words) - 19:29, 23 July 2023
Preprint Manuscript format Style guides List of style guides Sentence spacing Sentence spacing in language and style guides Shunn, William (December 1998)...
9 KB (892 words) - 12:43, 23 February 2024
Examples of headline letter spacing Letter spacing, character spacing or tracking is an optically consistent typographical adjustment to the space between...
13 KB (1,270 words) - 13:08, 7 December 2024
comprehension in the social and behavioral sciences, for clarity of communication, and for "word choice that best reduces bias in language". APA style is widely...
20 KB (2,204 words) - 13:07, 29 March 2025
Full stop (redirect from Periods at ends of sentences)
the mark is used to end a sentence, the distinction—drawn since at least 1897—is not maintained by all modern style guides and dictionaries. Fowler's Modern...
53 KB (6,080 words) - 00:24, 18 March 2025
Dash (redirect from Em and en dash)
uses a hyphen: Some style guides (including the Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI) and the AMA Manual of Style) recommend that,...
79 KB (6,890 words) - 10:26, 21 April 2025
Percent sign (category CS1 Croatian-language sources (hr))
numerical value and its corresponding unit of measurement. Other languages have other rules for spacing in front of the percent sign: In Czech and in Slovak,...
21 KB (2,055 words) - 16:35, 30 April 2025
Colon (punctuation) (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
modern American style guides, including those published by the Associated Press and the Modern Language Association. The Chicago Manual of Style, however, requires...
43 KB (4,714 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2025
Space (punctuation) (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
In writing, a space ( ) is a blank area that separates words, sentences, and other written or printed glyphs (characters). Conventions for spacing vary...
27 KB (3,094 words) - 05:44, 9 April 2025
Non-breaking space (category CS1 Canadian French-language sources (fr-ca))
it is moved in its entirety to the next line. For this reason, many style guides recommend using a non-breaking space between numbers and their associated...
18 KB (1,646 words) - 15:22, 30 April 2025
Letter case (redirect from Sentence case)
especially in bibliographic references and library catalogues. An example of a global publisher whose English-language house style prescribes sentence-case...
66 KB (7,281 words) - 15:51, 28 April 2025
in closer spacing and what is judged to be a cleaner appearance. The American style is used by most newspapers, publishing houses, and style guides in...
47 KB (5,449 words) - 03:32, 9 March 2025
Comma (redirect from Commas in English)
The comma is used in many contexts and languages, mainly to separate parts of a sentence such as clauses, and items in lists mainly when there are three...
49 KB (5,068 words) - 20:57, 2 April 2025
Exclamation mark (redirect from Exclamation mark in English)
other scripts, such as languages written with Cyrillic or Arabic scripts, Chinese characters, and Devanagari. A sentence ending in an exclamation mark may...
59 KB (6,200 words) - 07:12, 24 April 2025
Hyphen (redirect from Hyphenation in English)
The English language does not have definitive hyphenation rules, though various style guides provide detailed usage recommendations and have a significant...
47 KB (5,858 words) - 16:28, 8 February 2025
Punctuation (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
marks, especially spacing, were not needed in logographic or syllabic (such as Chinese and Mayan script) texts because disambiguation and emphasis could...
33 KB (3,732 words) - 01:51, 25 March 2025
Latin (redirect from Latin (language))
used in classical times, but many other languages use it. Classical Latin did not contain sentence punctuation, letter case, or interword spacing, but...
104 KB (11,087 words) - 12:57, 1 May 2025
Ellipsis (redirect from Ellipsis in English)
ellipsis can be used in many ways, such as for intentional omission of text or numbers, to imply a concept without using words. Style guides differ on how to...
45 KB (4,982 words) - 11:48, 21 March 2025
abbreviations. Sentence spacing Baugh 2005. p. 45. Research and Education Association 2009. p. 177. University of Chicago Press 1982 Chicago Manual of Style. p....
3 KB (245 words) - 04:50, 10 October 2024
Apostrophe (redirect from Possessives in business names)
intended. The style guides of The Economist and The Guardian omit the extra s in this case. Some style guides advise that Classical, biblical, and similar names...
143 KB (16,623 words) - 08:58, 27 April 2025
Scriptio continua (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
continua or scripta continua, is a style of writing without spaces or other marks between the words or sentences. The form also lacks punctuation, diacritics...
22 KB (2,557 words) - 22:56, 16 February 2025
Acronym (redirect from Initialism and acronym)
development, it now gives the "initialism" sense first. English language usage and style guides which have entries for acronym generally criticize the usage...
115 KB (13,490 words) - 13:30, 28 April 2025
Spencer, David (24 May 2011). "The Curious Misconception Surrounding Sentence Spacing". Type Desk. Matador. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved...
27 KB (2,967 words) - 23:57, 23 March 2025
Typeface (redirect from Proportional spacing)
have the same width. Proportional spacing places the digits closely together, reducing empty space in a document, and is thought to allow the numbers to...
68 KB (7,858 words) - 22:07, 2 April 2025