Punctuation

Once you've compiled the components for a template, you need to separate them with the appropriate punctuation.

When defining punctuation, work from the back. Suppose your style guide requires:

Miller, Sue: New Age. Boston, 2007.

Then you should read this as:

•Comma and space before the year

•Period and space before the place of publication

•Colon and space before the title.

Adding Punctuation to a Component

1.Double-click the component you want to punctuate.

2.In the window that opens, click the background of the editing pane to de-select any elements.

3.Enter the Punctuation before and Punctuation after the component. Since punctuation before takes precedence, you will usually enter the punctuation there, for example, a period and a space. Click OK to finish.

You should only use the punctuation before and punctuation after boxes for the following punctuation:

•Commas

•Periods

•Semicolons

•Colons

•Spaces

•Non-breaking spaces (Shift+Spacebar)

•Tabs

•Returns

 

To add any other punctuation, such as parentheses,  or any other text, create a new component instead.

Important: Use primarily punctuation before when possible. Punctuation before will always take precedence over punctuation after; you will not get both. This behavior helps in situations where a field is sometimes empty, where you might otherwise end up with superfluous or incorrect punctuation marks.

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