Punctuation two styles differ mainly in the way in which they handle quotation marks, particularly in conjunction with other punctuation marks. In British English, punctuation such as periods and commas are placed outside the closing quotation mark; in American English, however, punctuation is placed inside the closing quotation mark. This rule varies for other punctuation marks; for example, American English follows the British English rule when it comes to semicolons, colons, question marks, and exclamation points. Other languages of Europe use much the same punctuation as English. The similarity is so strong that the few variations may confuse a native English
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