PUNC - PUNCTUATION [WC 20] Type of Punctuation Mnemonic Superset beginning of sentence BOS [1] comma COMMA [2] colon / semi-colon COLON / SEMIC [3] slash SLASH [4] hyphen HYPH [5] left parens LPAREN [6] right parens RPAREN [7] end of sentence EOS [10]
Consult the EXCEL document named "alphanum7"
maintained at the Logos Technology Center
for additional punctuation codes.
Punctuation | Mnemonic | Numeric |
beginning of sentence | BOS | [1 1 001] |
interrogative sentence | INTERG | [1 1 909] |
sentence within list (first sentence of list and each sentence within list) |
LIST | [1 1 385] |
comma | COMMA | [2 2 888] |
colon | COLON | [3 3 887] |
semi-colon | SEMIC | [3 3 886] |
dash | DASH | [3 3 885] |
ellipsis | ELLIP | [3 3 885] |
slash | SLASH | [4 4 884] |
hyphen | HYPH | [5 5 005] |
left parenthesis | LPAREN | [6 26 866] |
left angle bracket | LANGBR | [6 26 386] |
left double quote | LDQUOTE | [6 56 666] |
right parenthesis | RPAREN | [7 27 877] |
right angle bracket | RANGBR | [7 27 387] |
right double quote | RDQUOTE | [7 57 777] |
end of sentence | EOS | [10 10 10] form = 01 |
exclamation point | EXCLPT | [10 10 10] form = 08 |
period | PERIOD | [10 10 10] form = 01 |
question mark | QUES | [10 10 10] form = 09 |
exclamation point / rt parens |
EXCLPTRP | [10 7 877] form = 01 [10 10 10] form = 08 |
period / rt parens | PERIODRP | [10 7 877] form = 01 [10 10 10] form = 01 |
question mark / rt parens | QUESRP | [10 7 877] form = 01 [10 10 10] form = 08 |
EOS of a broken sentence / or / EOS before list mode |
BROK |
Set 51 |
Colon occurs at break | BROKcolon | [10 51 186] |
Semi-colon occurs at break | BROKsemi-colon | [10 51 185] |
Comma occurs at break | BROKcomma | [10 51 188] |
Dash or space occurs at break | BROKdashspace | [10 51 189] |
Final sentence in a list / or / EOS of the end of a broken sentence |
LISTFINAL | Set 52 |
Special Characters
Special Characters occur in Punctuation Word Class [PUNC] [WC 20] and in Arithmate Word Class [AR] [WC 16]. For a complete list of Special Characters, refer to the EXCEL document named "alphanum7" maintained at the Logos Technology Center. This is the definive file for Arithmates, Punctuation, and Special Characters.