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Tab dividers are used to organize paperwork in filing cabinets and binders. You can type the labels for each divider onto your computer to give your files a cleaner look. Microsoft Word 2007 includes tab-divider templates with predefined dimensions.
Contents. History In, may have been used as much to demarcate word boundaries as to disambiguate the semantics of words. Rarely in, but commonly in the later cuneiform, a vertical stroke ? was used to separate words.
In, a diagonally sloping wedge was used. As the alphabet spread throughout the ancient world, words were often run together without division, and this practice remains or remained until recently in much of South and Southeast Asia. However, not infrequently in inscriptions a vertical line, and in manuscripts a single , double (:), or triple (dot) was used to divide words. This practice was found in, and, and continues today with, though there whitespace is gaining ground. Scriptio continua The early writing systems, such as the, had only signs for (although some signs for consonant could also stand for a, so-called ). Without some form of visible word dividers, parsing a text into its separate words would have been a puzzle. With the introduction of letters representing vowels in the, the need for inter-word separation lessened.
The earliest Greek inscriptions used interpuncts, as was common in the writing systems which preceded it, but soon the practice of, continuous writing in which all words ran together without separation became common. Use of spaces in Medieval Latin The interpunct died out in Latin only after the Classic period, sometime around the year 200 CE, as the Greek style of scriptio continua became fashionable.
In the 7th century, started using blank spaces, and introduced their script to France. By the 8th or 9th century, spacing was being used fairly consistently across Europe (Knight 1996). Types None Alphabetic writing without inter-word separation, known as scriptio continua, was used in Ancient Egyptian. It appeared in Post-classical Latin after several centuries of the use of the interpunct. Traditionally, scriptio continua was used for the of South and Southeast Asia and of Korea, but spacing is now used with hangul and increasingly with the Indic alphabets. Today and are the main scripts consistently written without punctuation to separate words.
In Classical Chinese, a word and a were almost the same thing, so that word dividers would have been superfluous. Although has numerous polysyllabic words, and each syllable is written with a distinct character, the conceptual link between character and word or at least remains strong, and no need is felt for word separation apart from what characters already provide.
Traditional spacing examples from the 1911 Chicago Manual of Style Space is the most common word divider, especially in. Vertical lines Ancient inscribed and cuneiform scripts such as frequently used short vertical lines to separate words, as did. In manuscripts, vertical lines were more commonly used for larger breaks, equivalent to the Latin comma and period. This was the case for (the ) and continues with many Indic scripts today. Interpunct, multiple dots, and hypodiastole armavirvmqvecanotroiaeqviprimvsaboris italiamfatoprofvgvslaviniaqvevenit litoramvltvmilleetterrisiactatvsetalto visvpervmsaevaememoremivnonisobiram The Latin interpunct.
The Ethiopic double interpunct As noted above, the single and double interpunct were used in manuscripts (on paper) throughout the ancient world. For example, Ethiopic inscriptions used a vertical line, whereas manuscripts used double dots (፡) resembling a colon. The latter practice continues today, though the space is making inroads. Classical Latin used the interpunct in both paper manuscripts and stone inscriptions (Wingo 1972:16). Used between two and five dots as word separators, as well as the.
Different letter forms In the modern and, some letters have distinct forms at the ends and/or beginnings of words. This demarcation is used in addition to spacing.
Vertical arrangement. 'Determinatives are a most significant aid to legibility, being readily identifiable word dividers.' (Ritner 1996:77).
King, Leonard William (1901). Assyrian Cuneiform. New York: AMS Press. University of Chicago Press (1911). Chicago: University of Chicago.
Further reading. Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds.
The World's Writing Systems. Knight, Stan (1996). 'The Roman Alphabet'. In Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William. The World's Writing Systems. Ritner, Robert (1996). 'Egyptian Writing'.
In Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William. The World's Writing Systems.
Saenger, Paul (2000). Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. Latin Punctuation in the Classical Age.
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