diff --git a/Assets/Fungus/Scripts/Components/Writer.cs b/Assets/Fungus/Scripts/Components/Writer.cs
index 019ff519..6e2d40d0 100644
--- a/Assets/Fungus/Scripts/Components/Writer.cs
+++ b/Assets/Fungus/Scripts/Components/Writer.cs
@@ -584,7 +584,16 @@ namespace Fungus
                     }
 
                     textAdapter.RevealedCharacters++;
-                    
+
+                    NotifyGlyph();
+                    //TODO need to log some info here, it's not a perf spike
+
+                    // Punctuation pause
+                    if (IsPunctuation(textAdapter.LastRevealedCharacter))
+                    {
+                        yield return StartCoroutine(DoWait(currentPunctuationPause));
+                    }
+
                     if (currentWritingSpeed > 0f)
                     {
                         timeAccumulator -= invWritingSpeed;
diff --git a/Assets/Fungus/Scripts/Utils/TextAdapter.cs b/Assets/Fungus/Scripts/Utils/TextAdapter.cs
index 34f2f188..0e357792 100644
--- a/Assets/Fungus/Scripts/Utils/TextAdapter.cs
+++ b/Assets/Fungus/Scripts/Utils/TextAdapter.cs
@@ -233,6 +233,20 @@ namespace Fungus
             }
         }
 
+        public char LastRevealedCharacter
+        {
+            get
+            {
+#if UNITY_2018_1_OR_NEWER
+                if(tmpro != null)
+                {
+                    return tmpro.textInfo.characterInfo[tmpro.maxVisibleCharacters].character;
+                }
+#endif
+                return (char)0;
+            }
+        }
+
         public int CharactersToReveal
         {
             get