Tub Book: Style Guide
From Plastic Tub
The main thing is to be consistent -- so if you see inconsistent patterns punctuation, let us all know!
Links
Internal Links:
- Internal links that properly name the entry -- leave as is
- Misdirects (e.g., Stinking Weed actually takes you to Stinking Weed) -- leave as is, but add a "see" reference to the index (i.e., Wacky Tobaccy see Stinking Weed)
- Dead links (they take you know where) -- delete 'em
External Links:
- Put the page name in quotes and the add the address after in parenthesis. For example:
- Adid likes to [http//www.jumprope.com jump rope] in Madrid.
- Should be changed to:
- Adid likes to jump rope (http//www.jumprope.com) in Madrid.
Glossary-specific
- glossary terms should be lower case unless they are proper nouns (e.g., ablation vs. Tampa)
- each definition should end in a period (or exclamation point or question mark).
- watch the 2.a. ... 2.b. layout -- be sure that you have a period after the number & after the letter
General Copy Edits
- Use double dashes (--) instead of em-dashes because em-dashes don't work so well in this wiki
- if we're going Yank style, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks go inside quotes. (Personally, I prefer British style, which puts the end punctuation outside of the quote unless the end punctuation is part of the quote -- but I think we have mostly been following the Yank style, so let's keep the end punctuation inside quotes unless someone else wants to argue otherwise.)
- one space after periods and colons (speak up if you'd prefer 2 spaces)
- dates -- like this: 3 March, 2007 (speaks up if you'd prefer March 3, 2007)
- Ellipses (i.e., ...) -- surround them by spaces (e.g., "and then ... she went to the sky")
