rvmark
Typography
Logical connectors
∴: therefore sign : informal mathematical symbol indicating a logical consequence.∵: because sign : informal mathematical symbol indicating a logical antecendence.- "∵ these signs exist ∴ we must misuse them." - Wittgenstein, probably.
- This is fine.
- Because They're informal anyway.
Ruby text
- In Japanese there's this thing called ルビ characters.
- It is used to annotate rare kanji with their pronunciation.
- It exists in HTML. You could use it to annotate circumlocutory phrases.
- You can be as pretentious as you want! No one has any right to...
- *checks thesaurus* ...inveigh against you.
Curly brackets
- The humble curly brackets do not have a punctuative meaning.
- Wiktionary says it is used to "enclose a sequence of equal options." I've never seen this.
- Select your animal {goat, sheep, cow, horse} and follow me.
- Suppose we make them the {linguistic constituent that is too long to hyphenate}-mark.
- It opens up new prose-possibilities, such as the {extended noun phrase that reads like a single term}.
Alternatively, vincula
- The vinculum is a typographic mark used in older mathematics texts where we would today use brackets.
- Therefore It could also function as a linguistic constituent that is too long to hyphenate-mark.
Conjunction of punctuation
- Why don't we do this?: put a colon after a question mark.
- And why don't we put a comma after a question mark?, given that the end of a question phrase isn't always the end of a sentence.
- Or is it better to just use a question mark? and then not capitalise the next word.
- Link Wikipedia List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
- Link Github Kragen's list of .xcompose keys