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English
Etymology
Used to give consistent presentation of quotation marks irrespective of comma or period placement.
Noun
punctuation space (plural punctuation spaces)
- (in dated typography) A space of non-variable width: ⊣ ⊢ equal to the width of a period (full stop) or comma, inserted after ⟨“⟩ or ⟨‘⟩ and before ⟨”⟩ or ⟨’⟩ (and sometimes ⟨?⟩ or ⟨!⟩), unless a punctuation mark occurs there. It is Unicode character U+2008. When using X11 input method, the conventional key combination is Compose+Space+Period.
- Many examples occur on page 204 of the 1837 New Sporting Magazine XIII.
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