Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The rarer minus–plus sign is not generally found in legacy encodings, but is available in Unicode as U+2213 ā MINUS-OR-PLUS SIGN so can be used in HTML using ∓ or ∓. In TeX 'plus-or-minus' and 'minus-or-plus' symbols are denoted \pm and \mp , respectively.
All characters used in date and time expressions and representations are part of the ISO/IEC 646 repertoire, except for "hyphen", "minus” an "plus-minus". In an environment where use is made of a character repertoire based on ISO/IEC 646, "hyphen" and "minus" should be both mapped onto "hyphen-minus".
This essay explains use of the non-breaking hyphen character ā, U+2011, coded by ‑ or ‑.Once displayed in a page, the non-breaking hyphen can be copied into words, or abbreviations, so they will not wrap at the hyphen character, such as an interstate highway symbol, "Iā94", which would always wrap to the next line as a whole word.
The hyphen-minus (keyboard hyphen), en dash, em dash, and mathematical minus/negative symbols are different (see WP:Manual of Style/Dashes). Pressing the -on your keyboard, usually next to the 0 (zero) key, will produce a hyphen-minus. Methods of producing the other characters are described below.
In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.
In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list.For example: • Item 1 • Item 2 • Item 3 The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond or arrow.
When I'm writing I will use just a single hyphen/minus sign with a space either side - like this - when perhaps I "should" use a dash. It's easy to type and easy to read (both as source and when rendered on the page), and I frankly can't be bothered to go find the style guide every time I type a dash to check the correct way of doing it.
The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, [1] or a quoted sentence. [2] It is also used between hours and minutes in time, [1] between certain elements in medical journal citations, [3] between chapter and verse in Bible citations, [4] and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other ...