User:Vasha77/Notes on Spanish punctuation

• There is not a comma in front of the and/or+last item in a list.

• Three dot ellipsis is never preceded by a space, but is followed by one. No space between ellipsis and a following punctuation mark. Never followed by an additional period. capitalization of following words depends on whether it is the start of a new entire sentence.

• prefixes. All prefixes are written directly attached to their word without a hyphen (e.g. exministro, antimafia), except when attached to a capitalized word or a number, in which case they are hyphenated (e.g. pos-Gorbachov, sub-21). However, in the case where the prefix is attached to a group of words, the prefix is not hyphenated nor are the other words (e.g. ex primer ministro, pre Segunda Guerra Mundial).

Write a comma between the name of a series and the number of the volume within it: Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, 24.

DATES. Order is day, month, year. 31 Dic 1992 - 31 de dic de 1992

A QUOTation is preceded by a colon, surrounded by comillas and the beginning is capitalized. colon BEFORE dialogue, comma after.

A colon within a sentence is never followed by a capital letter.

Titles and subtitles are separated by a colon, with the start of the subtitle not being capitalized.

Punctuation of dialogue.

ANGLE QUOTES. «Es imprescindible —señaló el ministro— que se refuercen los controles sanitarios en las fronteras». note: interruption between dashes without closing quotes.

PERIOD goes AFTER QUOTATION MARKS. When a quoted text ends w/

Possible to substitute quotation marks for italics in handwriting; would be used here because italics not possible?