PUNCTUATION MARKS, ACCENTS, ETC.
Reading edition
, Comma ¨ Dieresis
; Semicolon ç Cedilla
: Colon Caret
. Period “ ” Quotation-marks
? Interrogation { } Brace
! Exclamation * * * Ellipsis
( ) Parentheses . . . Ellipsis, leaders
[ ] Brackets * Asterisk
’ Apostrophe † Dagger
- Hyphen ‡ Double dagger
´ Acute accent § Section
` Grave accent ‖ Parallels
^ Circumflex accent ¶ Paragraph
~ Circumflex or tilde Index
Long or macron * * * Asterisks
Short or breve
The Section-mark is derived from the first letters of the words signum sectionis, meaning sign of the section, the old-fashioned ∫ being used. The paragraph mark ¶ is the roman letter P reversed, with black and white interchanged.
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