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Italian (italiano)

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This page is generated by bun run docs:languages from the pack in src/core/lang/it.ts. Do not edit it by hand: src/lang-docs.test.ts fails when it is out of date. A no-break space is shown as ~.

Quotation

A quotation nested deeper than the levels listed starts over from the first.

Dashes

Spaces

• One-letter words kept with the next word: none.
• Short words kept with the next word, in a title (the opt-in rule space.short-word): none.
• A no-break space between a number and %: yes.
• A no-break space between a number and € after it: yes.

Abbreviations

Numbers

Groups of three are separated by ~, the decimal mark is ,.

Sources

• https://www.treccani.it/magazine/lingua_italiana/articoli/scritto_e_parlato/punteggiatura9.html
• https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/01ed788a-d266-11ec-a95f-01aa75ed71a1.0021.01/DOC_1 (Manuale interistituzionale di convenzioni redazionali, PDF of 19 April 2022: 4.2.3 livelli di virgolette, apostrofo and spazi fissi, 6.4 spaziatura dei segni d’interpunzione, 6.5 interpunzione nelle cifre, 10.1.7 virgolette, 10.1.10 lineetta, allegato A3 abbreviazioni)
• https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-specifications/character-encoding/use-of-quotation-marks-in-the-different-languages (Publications Office, quotation marks per language: it «…» “…” ‘…’)
• https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/virgolette_(Enciclopedia-dell'Italiano)/ (Enciclopedia dell’italiano: virgolette basse, alte, singole; the usual order is bassa for the first quotation and alta for those inside)
• https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/apostrofo_(Enciclopedia-dell'Italiano)/ (Enciclopedia dell’italiano: apostrofo for elision l’amica, truncation po’, dropped digits of a year ’48)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark (cross-check only: Italian «…» “…”)

Notes

Dialogue: narrative dialogue may open with a spaced lineetta, and the same spaced dash sets off the narrator (F. Longo, Treccani Magazine 2020, “Lineette doppie e lineetta singola”); « » is an equally standard choice. The examples there set the en dash; the pack keeps one dash for the text, the em dash of ISG 10, so dialogue and the narrator match. Quotation: «…» then “…” then ‘…’ is the order of the Manuale interistituzionale (4.2.3) and of Treccani; some Italian publishers write “…” first, with ‘…’ inside, which quoteStyle: “us” gives. The Accademia della Crusca was searched, but its editorial criteria PDF could not be read, so it is not cited. Apostrophe: the engine already reads an apostrophe inside a word (l’amico, dell’architetto), a closing apostrophe of a truncation (un po’) and a year of two digits (’48) as apostrophes, not quote marks; the goldens in it.test.ts pin that inside and outside a quotation. Known limit: a quotation written with straight single quotes that holds a truncation, “dammi un po” di pane’, is closed at po’ because the pack has no field for a trailing apostrophe (po’, va’, da’, di’, fa’, be’, sta’ are listed by Treccani); double quotes are not affected. The elisions field lists only words that start with an apostrophe, and the only ones read in a source are the dropped digits of a year, so it is empty: ’800 and ’900 are not implemented, not verified (a single university handout lists them; no authoritative source was read). Not implemented, not verified: the ISG gives half a fixed space between digit groups (a thin space), set here as a no-break space; no source read gives a list of one-letter words (a, e, i, o) to keep off the end of a line, so there are no orphans; the lineetta of 10.1.10 is the em dash, which is the default; the abbreviation lists are only a part of annex A3, chosen for a number or a second part that follows them.

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