Oooh! Space after ellipses, spaced em-dashes — I like Noosha! (We already have an editor, Roz Warren, and she’s great.) Any special thoughts, insights, or rules about Oxford commas?
Noosha has commented to me about the Oxford comma! She said Yes, or No is a personal choice — just be consistent. I’m on the fence.
Reader Gary and I talked about TOC once and I liked the idea and adopted it as a habit. Then I recently read a piece about TOC — that called its use into question. And I’ve stopped using it again.
What do you think Jack? TOC — do you use it, or not?
I'm an Oxford Comma proponent (although I recognize that sometimes it makes things harder... in which case, I don't use it).
Back when I was a tech writer, our editor said she was fine with any punctuation rules the team preferred for a project... but once those went into the project style guide, she would enforce them with the fury of hell behind her. (Something like that. Been a few years.) The only thing she would never allow is two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. "Are we using typewriters? NO. Therefore a rule created for monospaced fonts is superfluous." Oh, and she hated double-dashes instead of em-dashes, same principle. And she enforced en-dashes for "through" uses: 6–10 not 6-10. "Nobody can tell the difference!" "But *I* can!" (She really could. SCARY attention to detail. "On page 14 you refer to the procedure this way, but on page 56 you refer to it this way, which is it?")
Oooh! Space after ellipses, spaced em-dashes — I like Noosha! (We already have an editor, Roz Warren, and she’s great.) Any special thoughts, insights, or rules about Oxford commas?
Noosha has commented to me about the Oxford comma! She said Yes, or No is a personal choice — just be consistent. I’m on the fence.
Reader Gary and I talked about TOC once and I liked the idea and adopted it as a habit. Then I recently read a piece about TOC — that called its use into question. And I’ve stopped using it again.
What do you think Jack? TOC — do you use it, or not?
I'm an Oxford Comma proponent (although I recognize that sometimes it makes things harder... in which case, I don't use it).
Back when I was a tech writer, our editor said she was fine with any punctuation rules the team preferred for a project... but once those went into the project style guide, she would enforce them with the fury of hell behind her. (Something like that. Been a few years.) The only thing she would never allow is two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. "Are we using typewriters? NO. Therefore a rule created for monospaced fonts is superfluous." Oh, and she hated double-dashes instead of em-dashes, same principle. And she enforced en-dashes for "through" uses: 6–10 not 6-10. "Nobody can tell the difference!" "But *I* can!" (She really could. SCARY attention to detail. "On page 14 you refer to the procedure this way, but on page 56 you refer to it this way, which is it?")
I cannot tell the difference.🤷♀️
See? It’s like a extra pixel at most font sizes. WHO SEES THESE THINGS?!
OTOH, she could also spot a bolded period. ON A LASER PRINTOUT.
I guess I should have been glad she used her eldritch powers for good and not evil...
“Weird and sinister or ghostly” 😂