in their daily work, often overlooked the role of punctuation, in fact, in the English interfaceText design or the design of Chinese language interface, text, punctuation is an important component.To make a good interface design, not only attach importance to the visual, interactive as well as the wording of expression, but also attach importance to the use of punctuation.Explore the relevant issues here slightly, hoping to initiate drew attention.

The role of punctuation

punctuation Generally speaking, there are three roles: Table pause; tables tone; table word character.

  1. Table pause, used to indicate the structure of the sentence.
  2. tables tone.The tone of conversation is usually there are three: to describe the expectations, tell people one thing; doubt expected, a question to others; imperative expected to be other people to do one thing.These types of tone in the conversation using intonation to express, in writing, with punctuation marks, said.
  3. term nature of the table.Some words with some kind of punctuation, the nature of words will be changed.Such as" happy" refers to an adjective; and" happy" , says a movie or book or article's name.

differences in Chinese and English punctuation

  1. Chinese language not found in some English punctuationsymbols.
    a) comma (,), English in the middle of the parallel component split multi-purpose very well.
    b) No. (" " ), English title not the title number, title, newspaper name in italics or underlined.In the English language articles, poetry, music, movies, paintings, and some proper nouns such as the name is also commonly shown in italics.
    c) interval number (*), the English need more time interval with a comma.
  2. in English, some Chinese are not available in punctuation
    a) apostrophe ( ')
    b) hyphen (-)
    c) slash (/)

user interface, the use of punctuation in the text

text in the user interface when to use punctuation in line with the main follow the following basis
and the specificpunctuation, there are some norms.

full stop

  1. control label or not to use after explaining the main headings;
  2. Help, auxiliary, or other material contained complete sentences to explain the static text for later use.

following figure:

main distinction here is to see the nature of the text is the main text or supplementaryof text, the difference between these two texts later whether to use punctuation marks in English will be used.

question mark

can be used after all of the questions with question marks apply to all types of text, the following diagram:


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