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 is important to realise that the full stop is left-leaning; the space is intentional (yet only few are aware of that). If a non-syntactical full stop is at the end of a sentence, it is not usual to append another full stop to it; however, doing so is not incorrect. Syntactical Use An ellipsis (in Slovene, literally 'three dots') (…) is a non-leaning punctuation mark. It expresses omission of words. Any other punctuation may or may not be appended; a full stop is usually (but not always) omitted, but other punctuation normally remains: When emphasising that whatever has been left