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Open Punctuation
Convention of page layout, resulting from the increased use of word processing and e-mail, where the absolute minimum of punctuation is used.
In this style, addresses and contractions, such as ‘Mr’, are stripped of punctuation. The number of commas is reduced in the body of the text and paragraph indents are replaced by double ‘carriage returns’ (or line spaces).
Electronic forms of communication can produce unpredictable results with some more elaborate punctuation marks.
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acronym (language)
apostrophe (grammar)
apposition
asterisk
bracket
bullet
capital letter
case, upper and lower
colon (punctuation)
comma
contraction
dash
direct speech
e-mail style
e.g.
ellipsis
etc.
exclamation mark
footnote
full stop
hyphen
i.e.
indent
inverted commas
justification
mnemonic (language)
mobile phone style
open punctuation
paragraph
parenthesis
punctuation
QED
question mark
quotation marks
reference
semicolon
sic
viz
written conventions
acronym (language)
apostrophe (grammar)
apposition
asterisk
bracket
bullet
capital letter
case, upper and lower
colon (punctuation)
comma
contraction
dash
direct speech
e-mail style
e.g.
ellipsis
etc.
exclamation mark
footnote
full stop
hyphen
i.e.
indent
inverted commas
justification
mnemonic (language)
mobile phone style
open punctuation
paragraph
parenthesis
punctuation
QED
question mark
quotation marks
reference
semicolon
sic
viz
written conventions
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