Punctuation centuries meant that a standard system of punctuation was urgently required." The introduction of a standard system of punctuation has also been attributed to the Venetian printers Aldus Manutius and his grandson. They have been credited with popularizing the practice of ending sentences with the colon or full stop, inventing the semicolon, making occasional use of parentheses and creating the modern comma by lowering the virgule. By 1566, Aldus Manutius the Younger was able to state that the main object of punctuation was the clarification of syntax. By the 19th century, punctuation in the western world had evolved "to classify
Comma the comma is used to denote Logical Conjunction ("and"). The comma-separated values (CSV) format is very commonly used in exchanging text data between database and spreadsheet formats. The comma is used as a diacritic mark in Romanian under the "s" ("Ș", "ș"), and under the "t" ("Ț", "ț"). A cedilla is occasionally used instead of it, but this is technically incorrect. The symbol "d̦" ("d" with comma below) was used as part of the Romanian transitional alphabet (19th century) to indicate the sounds denoted by the Latin letter "z" or letters "dz", where derived from a Cyrillic "ѕ" (). The