Basic Rules for Punctuation

All punctuation marks (question marks, exclamation marks, dot, comma, semicolon, colon, „Virgel“ /) are transcribed as printed. A normalisation of the punctuation according to today's standards is not necessary.

Punctuation marks are placed directly on the preceding word without spaces. A blank space follows. Quotes and parentheses are placed directly on the text enclosed by them without spaces. Footnote references also fit directly to the preceding sign without spaces.

The mark left on the page by a spatium that has fallen off during the printing process is not transcribed.

Several points in a row, which are supposed to point up an omission, are enclosed by a blank character. An exception to this rule are points that illustrate terminating a word. They follow directly after the incomplete word without spaces.

Before and after dashes in the middle of a sentence there is a blank space. If the dash is directly in front of a punctuation mark, no blank space is typed in between.

For punctuation, the Unicode table General Punctuation applies.