Test for punctuation

[Mike Thompson]

I'm looking for a test document that includes all or most of the punctuation,
say Basic Latin, Latin-1 supplement and some of General Punctuation.
Biggest task in this is to use each character in a somewhat realistic setting.
A kind of punctuation pangram!
Mike

[Dick Pape]

• New job: fix Mr. Gluck's hazy TV, PDQ!

(includes 5 punctuation symbols)

[William]

“I saw Jane at the supermarket, in the fruit section: she said ‘Is John still researching?’ and bought a punnet of reddish-orange apricots; then she bought some dates!” said Edith.

The above includes eleven punctuation characters.

William Overington

25 January 2009

[William]

I'm looking for a test document that includes all or most of the punctuation,
say Basic Latin, Latin-1 supplement and some of General Punctuation.

Some readers might like to know that code charts which include the punctuation which Mike mentions are available using links at the http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html webpage.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf

There is also Supplemental Punctuation in the http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf document.

The next link is to a document which includes some information about punctuation.

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch06.pdf

Links to that document and to documents for other chapters are available at the following web page.

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/

William Overington

26 January 2009

[Mike Thompson]

Here is the text I eventually arrived at. Test most of my punctuation and special characters.

“I saw Jane & Joan at the supermarket, in the fruit section: she said ‘Is John still researching?’ and bought a pound of reddish-orange apricots; then she bought some dates!” said Edith. Cost of apricots was $1.45 per pound (€5,200 or £99.99) or {even ¥8,000 and there again ₪6.55} but maybe [a mere 3lbs @ 65¢ < 67¢ just maybe] where 3lb is sometimes 3# {with an interest rate of 4.2%} where 3*2=7 and so do 1+10= ~67 but only approximately. The micro_nano_1234 remember to type \ not /. These < and > of course match. How to use © or to use ® and so on… It's apostrophe and this is a double quote " by itself. Don't forget an ellipsis… 3^2 is a way of writing 3**2 or 3². «We have no guillemets today»
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And, by the way, in the top line of the iPhone screen, the colon in the time stamp on iPhoto (10:36 PM) should be changed to a period (10.36 PM), just like the times in good railroad timetables. Also AM and PM should be in lower case. So instead of 10:36 PM use 10.36 pm. These and similar typographic delicacies for time-stamps and timetables are discussed in Enivisioning Information, 104-105. -- Edward Tufte, January 11, 2007
"." or ":", using a 24-h clock must be superior to am/pm? -- Peter H (email), January 12, 2007
In re: ET's inclination towards the "period" instead of a colon for time-stamps, I have begun to see (and use):
i) the "period" in phone numbers as well - 650.555.1212, and
ii) only a small "a" or "p" after time numerals - "....will meet you Tues. at Peet's on campus, 7:15a."
These seem tidy; any reason/s to think either confusing or unappealing? -- David J (email), January 20, 2007
-- Edward Tufte, January 21, 2007