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punctuation space

noun

Etymology

Used to give consistent presentation of quotation marks irrespective of comma or period placement.

Definitions

  1. A space of non-variable width

    A space of non-variable width: ⊣ ⊢ equal to the width of a period (full stop) or comma, inserted after ⟨“⟩ or ⟨‘⟩ and before ⟨”⟩ or ⟨’⟩ (and sometimes ⟨?⟩ or ⟨!⟩), unless a punctuation mark occurs there. It is Unicode character U+2008. When using X11 input method, the conventional key combination is Compose+Space+Period.

    • Many examples occur on page 204 of the 1837 New Sporting Magazine XIII.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for punctuation space. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA