Editing Slash (punctuation) (section)

==Spacing==
There are usually no spaces either before or after a slash. According to ''[[New Hart's Rules: The Oxford Style Guide]]'', a slash is usually written without spacing on either side when it connects single words, letters or symbols.<ref name="solidhart" /> Exceptions are in [[#Poetry|representing the start of a new line when quoting verse]], or a new paragraph when quoting prose. ''[[The Chicago Manual of Style]]'' also allows spaces when either of the separated items is a compound that itself includes a space: "Our New Zealand / Western Australia trip".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Punctuation/faq0096.html |title=Punctuation - FAQ Item [CMOS 6.104] |website=The Chicago Manual of Style Online |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321090717/https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Punctuation/faq0096.html |archive-date=21 March 2016 |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref> (Compare [[Dash#Attributive compounds|use of an en dash used to separate such compounds]].) ''The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing'' prescribes: "No space before or after an oblique when used between individual words, letters or symbols; one space before and after the oblique when used between longer groups which contain internal spacing", giving the examples "n/a" and "Language and Society / ''Langue et société''".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tcdnstyl-chap?lang=eng&lettr=indx166&info0=7.02&info1=9.06 |title=7.02 Spacing, 9.06 |publisher=Translation Bureau, Public Works and Government Services Canada |date=8 October 2009 |website=btb.termiumplus.gc.ca |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108032043/https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tcdnstyl-chap?lang=eng&lettr=indx166&info0=7.02&info1=9.06 |archive-date=8 November 2018 |access-date=11 February 2020}}</ref>

According to ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', when typesetting a URL or computer path, line breaks should occur before a slash but not in the text between two slashes.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[The Chicago Manual of Style]] |edition=16th |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |date=2016 |at=7.42}}</ref>