(Semi-)Canonical Punctuation Marks

Here's where things get a bit more complicated, because most of the punctuation marks you use daily don't actually EXIST in canonical Morse Code. Don't worry, MouseCode has sensible, easy-to-guess patterns for them!

First, let's start with the two punctuation marks whose canonical Morse Code patterns you must learn:

There are two more canonical punctuation marks that are nice to know, but not strictly essential (because they have MouseCode alternate patterns):

MouseCode Punctuation Marks

MouseCode has easy-to-remember (albeit longer-to-type) alternate patterns for many of the above punctuation marks.

• In general, MouseCode digraph patterns for non-alphabetic characters begin with L or P
• With the exception of π (Pi), "P" characters are shifted/alternate/intensified variants of their "X" character siblings.

Memory tips:

• Think of € as "shifted dollar sign"... but if you're European and use it all the time, you'll probably find PE to be more convenient.
• # was historically called "pound sign" by American phone menus. Thus, £ is "shifted pound sign". I added LL because it was available & is probably nicer for British users.

"Parenthetical" characters

Parenthetical characters are... well... characters that function like parentheses. They have an opening variant and a closing variant.

Parentheticals begin with C, followed by a letter that resembles the represented character, and either a dot (opening) or dash (closing)

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