Aristophanes of Byzantium needed to complete each fragment of text when reading aloud (not to comply with rules of grammar, which were not applied to punctuation marks until thousands of years later). For a short passage (a "komma"), a "stigmḕ mésē" dot was placed mid-level (·). This is the origin of the modern comma punctuation mark, and its name. For a longer passage (a "kolon"), a "hypostigmḗ" dot was placed level with the bottom of the text (.), similar to a modern colon or semicolon, and for very long pauses ("periodos"), a "stigmḕ teleía" point near the top of the line of text
Punctuation Rs. 20/- or Rs. 20/= implies 20 rupees whole. Thai did not use punctuation until the adoption of punctuation from the West in the 20th century. Blank spaces are more frequent than full stops or commas. "Further information: Armenian punctuation, Chinese punctuation, Hebrew punctuation, Japanese punctuation and Korean punctuation." In 1966, the French author Hervé Bazin proposed a series of six innovative punctuation marks in his book "Plumons l'Oiseau" ("Let's pluck the bird", 1966). These were: An international patent application was filed, and published in 1992 under Work Order (WO) number WO9219458, for two new punctuation marks: the "question comma"