punctuation notes

Based on my typographical practice in both machine scripting, and human prose, here are some practical choices I adopt .

• - white space before and after semicolons ; like that, but not for commas : also for colons ... both semi-colons and colons tend to get lost in skimming.
• - sometimes you want to add space in between multiple hyphens also - - like that, which is more accented than a triple dash which takes the same space --- like that --- it doesn't skim as easily.
• - i finally figured out what to use square braces for. A lot of the writing I do is [ grossly technical ] so it helps to [ group entire concepts together ], which may be faster again for skimming, and look at my spacing before and after each brace also.
• - Curly brackets are best used as in math, for set notation { thing, thing, other thing, and thing }.
• - When one has too many braces in the chat, finally the diamond braces provide an accent of < last resort > . Also it helps to add a space between a closing bracket / brace and any subsequent comma or period, and also on both sides of each slash
• - finally, a most recent tic : replacing all commas, semicolons, hyphens, and ellipses with colons : simply as a matter of arbitrary structuring, which is less noisy. Once again : space before and after.