A punctuated history
"GREEKANDLATINMANUSCRIPTSWEREUSUALLYWRITTENWITHNOSPACEBETWEENWORDS UNTIL AROUND THE NINTH CENTURY AD"
Romans - "SOMETIMES.SEPORATED.WORDS.WITH.A.CENTERED.DOT."
Spacing began, "OFTEN A PREPOSITION WAS LINKEDTO ANOTHER WORD"
Early greek - ran lines alternately - from left to right then right to left
Words divided across lines divided by a dot, something similar to the modern hyphen appeared in the 11th century
Medieval scribes began using ornaments :[()]
invention of printing - justified lines
Earliest greek literary texts divided paragraphs with a line
"THEY ARE NOT GRAMMATICALLY ESSENTIAL THE CORRECTNESS OF A PARAGRAPH IS A MATTER OF STYLE HAVING NO STRICT RULES"
Later greek - outdents
early latin - capitals to divide while keeping the visual density
seventeenth century - indent standard
Before printing punctuation varied wildly
early punctuation linked to oral delivery - controlling rythum and emphasis
italics developed from handwriting for cheap books and business - it was used in france for contrast
S p a c e is used in german and eastern european
Boldface was not common until the nineteenth century for advertising
electronic correspondence has given rise to punctuated portraits
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