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The period marks the end of a sentence and is used for initials, abbreviations, decimal separators, and time notation; its design affects typeface intonation and spacing requires careful kerning.
The comma separates sentence parts and serves as a thousands or decimal separator depending on locale; its shape often mirrors apostrophes, but Czech/Slovak caron must differ from a regular comma.
The ellipsis consists of three dots for indicating omissions or pauses; it has specific rules when combined with other punctuation and may vary in spacing from three separate dots.
The bullet is a large centered dot for list items, while the interpunct is a smaller dot used as a separator or mathematical symbol; Unicode has multiple variants with different usage contexts.
Colon and semicolon may require spacing in French and are normally not case-sensitive; lifting them can improve appearance in all-caps or time notations.
Exclamation and question marks are usually cap-height; inverted forms exist for Spanish; the interrobang combines both but is rarely used; keyboard shortcuts are provided for typing these symbols.

Shrimple is a cleaner Markdown alternative for generating HTML documents.
Installation requires a Go compiler, and usage involves compiling and running with flags like -s for default CSS and -w for wrapping.
Links use footnotes to avoid inline URLs, maintaining readability.

JSON's lack of trailing commas complicates adding or removing key-value pairs, requiring different transformations than if trailing commas were allowed.
Haskell's record syntax uses leading commas, making it easier to modify the last row but harder to change the first.
TLA+ disallows trailing commas, causing frequent issues when adding variables, while its PlusCal extension does not have this problem.

Mathup translates simple mathematical expressions into structured MathML.
It supports installation via npm, as a client-side script, or as a command-line tool.
Custom HTML element <math-up> allows embedding math in web pages.

Zig fmt is steerable, allowing users to control layout by choosing variations based on existing file content (e.g., trailing commas).
The formatter adjusts function call layout: single-line with no trailing comma, or one argument per line with a trailing comma.
A non-trivial customization is columnar array layout, where the first line break determines alignment (e.g., three items per line).

No standardized strings – ISO only defines atoms or lists of character codes, leading to incompatibility across implementations.
No functions – code is expressed only in predicates that return true/false; simple operations like adding 1 to a length require multiple steps.
Limited collection types – only linked lists and compound terms; no built-in maps or structs, and custom solutions lack cross-compatibility.

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