Colon (punctuation) Colon (punctuation) The colon ( : ) is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line. A colon precedes an explanation or an enumeration, or list. A colon is also used with ratios, titles and subtitles of books, city and publisher in bibliographies, Biblical citations between chapter and verse, and for salutations business letters and other formal letter writing, and often to separate hours and minutes. The most common use of the colon is to inform the reader that what follows the colon proves, explains, defines, describes, or lists elements of what preceded
Slovene punctuation A hyphen (- or ‐) is a leaning punctuation mark (except where noted). In compound words that would otherwise use the word "in" (and) between the parts, a hyphen is used: A hyphen is also used as in the following examples: Hyphens are used non-syntactially in syllabification, when marking stems, suffixes, prefixes and similar (many examples at declensions above) and in prices (1000,- SIT (which is the same as 1000,0 SIT)). The same character under the name of "deljaj" marks word division over two lines. At the end of a line, a word may be spelt only to the end