It appears in Unicode as the pre-composed letters Ŀ (U+013F) and ŀ (U+0140), but they are compatibility characters and are not frequently used or recommended. There is no separate keyboard layout for Catalan: the flying point can be typed using ⇧ Shift+ 3 in the Spanish (Spain) layout. as a marker for certain elisions, much like the modern apostrophe (see Occitan below) and hyphenations.Historically, medieval Catalan also used the symbol In situations where the flying point is unavailable, periods (as in col.lecció) or hyphens (as in col-lecció) are frequently used as substitutes, but this is tolerated rather than encouraged. This distinguishes such ' geminate Ls' ( ela geminada), which are pronounced, from 'double L' ( doble ela), which are written without the flying point and are pronounced. The punt volat ('flying point') is used in Catalan between two Ls in cases where each belongs to a separate syllable, for example cel