High point (punctuation)
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| Punctuation marks | |
| Comma, comma | , |
| Semicolon, semicolon | ; |
| Colon, colon | : |
| Point | . |
| Ellipsis | ... |
| Focus | · |
| bullet point | • |
| Question mark | ? |
| Exclamation, exclamation, call signs | ! |
| Apostrophe, apostrophe | ' |
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- - Hyphen ; Hyphen ; Supplementary line |
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| Indent ; Up line | - |
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quotation marks "" »« / «» ‚'› ‹ / ‹ › |
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| Slashes / \ | |
| Brackets () [] | |
The high point · ( ancient Greek μέση στιγμή mésē stigmḗ , modern Greek άνω τελεία áno telía , Unicode : U + 0387 greek ano teleia ), also called colon , is a punctuation mark that is used in Greek . It has the same functions as the semicolon in German, for ancient Greek it is also used like the colon . (The semicolon ";" serves as a question mark in Greek .)
The character is typically at x-height (i.e. similarly high as the center point , which is usually half the capital height ). In pure capitalization , it can also be at full capitalization height. It has the same strength as the “ end of sentence ” shown on the baseline .
In Unicode, the Greek colon is defined as “canonical equivalent” to the center point (U + 00B7 middle dot ), so it can always be replaced by the latter by application systems. The typographical differentiation can then only be made using smart font technologies such as OpenType , which select the correct character height based on the neighboring letters (Greek or other).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Leggewie (ed.): Ars Graeca - Greek language teaching - grammar, Paderborn 1981/2010, ISBN 978-3-14-012144-6 , page 13: 7.6 - The punctuation marks
- ^ John Hudson: Greek ano teleia (semicolon) punctuation dot in use. (PDF; 32 kB) Tiro Typeworks, accessed on February 5, 2013 .