Monday, November 29, 2010

FOLLOW THESE INTREPID ANTIPODEAN EMU WATCHERS (or THE PLATONIC WORLD OF THE STATIC [BOOK] AND THE HEGELIAN WORLD OF PROCESS [INTERNET]--HOW GREAT THE CONTRAST!): Ed Park, of bookforum.com, muses on his transition from the 14th Edition (print) to the 16th Edition (on-line) of the Chicago Manual of Style.

I'm sure that, if I subscribe, the new edition will tell me how to make an en-dash in HTML.

Via C-Monster

5 comments:

  1. bill.9:01 AM

    if you really need help with your en-dash, try this table. And I always recommend the Chicago Style Q&A section. Sample:


    <span>Q.</span> On so many levels it seems true journalism is dead, but what required reporters to take out the English language with them? I refer to the constant phrasing similar to the following: “The defendant PLEADED not guilty at the arraignment.” Have these people never seen or heard the word “pled,” or did I miss a memo?

    <span>A.</span> Sorry—you missed the memo. (You can also check usages like this in a good dictionary.)

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  2. Anonymous10:01 AM

    Our academic library only has the 16th in print, not online.  And, if IIRC, it's still orange for us.

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  3. I think the most significant thing I got out of law school is a lifetime of frustration at others' failure to properly employ em and en dashes.

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  4. Anonymous3:19 PM

    How could one make The Orange Bible blue?  That is an unpardonable heresy. 

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  5. Watts2:01 PM

    Fear not, it can still be had in orange.  I checked after posting yesterday, and our copy is indeed still orange, if a slightly more subdued shade of said hue.

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