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Doubled punctuation

doubled-punctuationon by defaultJapanese / English

Two punctuation marks side by side, as ",," or ".."

Example

Flagged
We will send the file today,, as agreed.
What chaff prints
1:28 Punctuation is doubled: ",,"
Fixed
We will send the file today, as agreed.
What chaff prints
no finding

How to fix

Delete the extra mark.

Why it matters

Two punctuation marks side by side ("..", ",,", "i.e.,,") are left over from an edit or a paste. The reader stops there, and the document looks rushed. Three or more of the same mark ("...") are drawn out on purpose and are not counted, nor is the comma or semicolon after an abbreviation's period ("e.g.,", "etc.;"), the points and comma of a company form in a Japanese sentence ("INC.、", "CO.，LTD."), a period that starts the next word (".NET"), a range or path ("1..10", "../"), the dot leader before a page number in a contents line ("Command.. 7"), code or a URL. "!!" and "??" are a matter of style and are not checked.

What it does not flag

Three or more of one mark ("...", "。。。") and one mark right after them ("...。", "、、、。"), the mark after an abbreviation ("e.g.,", "etc.;") or a company form ("CO.，LTD."), ranges and paths ("1..10", "../"), "!!", "??" and colons are not reported.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)
<!-- stet: doubled-punctuation — reason -->
Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)
npx chaffjs relax doubled-punctuation --why "reason"
Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)
rules: doubled-punctuation: off
Technical details
Layer
L1
Status
stable
Severity
warning
Languages
Japanese and English
Suited to
business, technical, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech

Levels

Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).

stricterror
normalwarning
relaxedinfo

This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.

By genre

Runs by default in
technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript

Genres

Message

Punctuation is doubled: "{marks}"

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/doubled-punctuation.yaml