Latin

===Punctuation===
Classical Latin did not contain sentence [[punctuation]], letter case,<ref>{{Harvnb|Diringer|1996|p=540}}</ref> or [[interword spacing]], but [[apex (diacritic)|apices]] were sometimes used to distinguish length in vowels and the [[interpunct]] was used at times to separate words.

The first line of [[Catullus 3]] ("Mourn, O [[Venus (mythology)|Venuses]] and [[Cupid]]s") was originally written as:

{| class="wikitable"
! simply
| {{sm|lv́géteóveneréscupidinésqve}}
|-
! with [[long I]]
| {{Smallcaps|lv́géteóveneréscupIdinésqve}}
|-
! with interpunct
| {{sm|lv́géte·ó·venerés·cupidinésqve}}
|}

It would be rendered in a modern edition as:

{| class="wikitable"
! simply
| {{lang|la|Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque}}
|-
! with macrons
| {{lang|la|Lūgēte, ō Venerēs Cupīdinēsque}}
|-
! with apices
| {{lang|la|Lúgéte, ó Venerés Cupídinésque}}
|}

[[File:Hocgracili.jpg|thumb|upright=1.33|A modern Latin text written in the Old Roman Cursive inspired by the [[Vindolanda tablets]], the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain. The word ''Romani'' ('Romans') is at bottom left.]]

The [[Roman cursive]] script is commonly found on the many [[wax tablet]]s excavated at sites such as forts, an especially extensive set having been discovered at Vindolanda on [[Hadrian's Wall]] in [[Great Britain|Britain]]. Most notable is the fact that while most of the [[Vindolanda tablets]] show spaces between words, spaces were avoided in monumental inscriptions from that era.
Description	What you type	What you get
Italic	''Italic text''	Italic text
Bold	'''Bold text'''	Bold text
Bold & italic	'''''Bold & italic text'''''	*Bold & italic text*
Description	What you type	What you get
Reference	Page text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>	Page text.^[1]
Named reference	Page text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>	Page text.^[2]
Additional use of the same reference	Page text.<ref name="test" />	Page text.^[2]
Display references	<references />	↑ Link text, additional text. ↑ Link text