Punctuation and Spacing Symbols

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Punctuation

Symbol

Code

'

s:apostrophe

'

s:singlequote

[

s:leftbracket

{

s:leftcurly

]

s:rightbracket

}

s:rightcurly

/

s:slash

s:asterism

¦

s:brokenbar

s:bullet

s:dagger

s:bddagger

?

s:question

s:interrobang

¡

s:inv_exclamation

¿

s:inv_question

·

s:middot

s:paragraph

§

s:section

Spaces

Symbol

Code

clear dot clear dot

s:cleardot

clear line clear line

s:clearline

tab indentation

s:tab

space space

s:space

thin space thin space

s:thinsp

2 non-breaking spaces 2 non-breaking spaces

s:double

4 non-breaking spaces 4 non-breaking spaces

s:quad

thin "math" space to separate items in a series for accessibility thin "math" space to separate items in a series for accessibility

s:mathsp

punctuation space punctuation space

s:pspace

Hyphens and Dashes

Symbol

Code

s:hyphen

s:ndash

s:mdash

Ellipses

Symbol

Code

s:cdots

s:hellipsis_acc

s:lellipsis

s:rellipsis

s:vellipsis