Enumerate marks for the comma, the semicolon, and the dash And the pause or period, parentheses, quotation marks, and colons The question mark, exclamation, and ellipsis from the text Some of these marks occur at the beginning of the line, and some do not And some, though few, may appear at the beginning, middle, and end And all of them, in my view, have meanings by convention, not by these structures As they have specific places in our writing, as indicated by the author And the explanation and details will come, illustrated as much as possible
احْصُرْ عَلامَاتٍ لهُ فِي الفصْلةِ ... وَفصْلةٍ مَنقوطةٍ وَوَصْلةِ وَوَقفةٍ أوْ نقطةٍ قوْسَيْنِ ... عَلامةِ التنصِيص نقطتيْن عَلامَةِ اسْتفهَام انفِعَال ... وَنقطِ الحَذفِ مِنَ المَقال وَبَعْضُ هَذِهِ العَلامَاتِ يَقعْ ... فِي أوَّل السَّطر وَبَعْضُها امْتنعْ وَبَعْضُها وَهْوَ القلِيلُ قدْ يَفِي ... فِي أوَّلٍ وَوَسَطٍ وَطرَفِ وَكلهَا عِنْدِي لهَا مَعَانِي ... بالوَضْع لا بهَذِهِ المَبَانِي كمَا لهَا فِي رَسْمِنا مَوَاضِعُ ... مَخْصُوصَة كمَا أشَارَ الوَاضِعُ وَسَوْفَ يَأتِي الشرْحُ وَالتفصِيلُ ... مُمَثلا مَا أمْكنَ التمْثِيلُ