Editing Interpunct (section)

===Catalan===
[[File:Barcelona - Estació de Paral·lel (7495657866).jpg|thumb|left|230px|Metro station [[Paral·lel (Barcelona Metro)|Paral·lel]] in [[Barcelona]]]]
The '''{{lang|ca|punt volat}}''' ("flying point") is used in [[Catalan language|Catalan]] between two [[L]]s in cases where each belongs to a separate syllable, for example {{lang|ca|cel·la}}, "cell". This distinguishes such "[[geminate]] Ls" ({{lang|ca|ela geminada}}), which are pronounced {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|ɫ}}ː]}}, from "double L" ({{lang|ca|doble ela}}), which are written without the flying point and are pronounced {{IPAblink|ʎ}}. In situations where the flying point is unavailable, [[period mark|period]]s (as in {{lang|ca|col.lecció}}) or [[hyphen]]s (as in {{lang|ca|col-lecció}}) are frequently used as substitutes, but this is tolerated rather than encouraged.

Historically, medieval Catalan also used the symbol {{char|·}} as a marker for certain [[elision]]s, much like the modern apostrophe (see [[#Occitan|Occitan]] below) and [[Syllabification|hyphenation]]s.

There is no separate physical [[keyboard layout]] for Catalan: the flying point can be typed using {{Key press|Shift|3}} in the [[QWERTY#Spanish|Spanish (Spain) layout]] or with {{Key press|Option |Shift|9}} on a US English layout. On a mobile phone with a Catalan keyboard layout, the geminate L with a flying dot appears when holding down the {{Key press|L}} key. It appears in [[Unicode]] as the [[Precomposed character|pre-composed]] letters {{char|Ŀ}} (U+013F) and {{char|ŀ}} (U+0140), but they are [[Unicode compatibility characters|compatibility characters]] and are not frequently used or recommended.<ref>[http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0100.pdf Unicode Latin Extended A code chart] p.13</ref>{{efn|The preferred Unicode representation is a succession of three characters, that is: {{angle bracket|'''L·L'''}} (U+004C + U+00B7 + U+004C) and {{angle bracket|'''l·l'''}} (U+006C + U+00B7 + U+006C).}}