Morbus Iff wrote:
But anyways, I'm all for authoritative sources. What's the name of a respected guide in your part of the world? Over here, we have Fowlers and the Chicago Manual of Style.
There isn't one. The Guardian has published its own handbook but as you can see, it doesn't cover things like this at all: http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/page/0,,184844,00.html Neither does the BBC's: http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourse.asp?tID=5487&cat=3 I can't speak to the Times's one (the only other with any name recognition) because there's no online reference and it's rather a hidden text. [There's a perception in the UK that US journalism could do with fewer staff-level "style nazis" whose idea of 'factchecking' involves an insane level of needless rewrites and the removal of anything which can't be footnoted, no matter how blindingly obvious the fact may be. This, by way of explanation of why there's no cultural preference for comprehensive style guides here.] The notion that this is a UK/US divide is nonsense. Yes, teachers always told us to use two. But then when I was told that, *everything* typed was monospace. Proportional type doesn't require it, and no typesetter does it since their own local rules prohibit it. The real reason for using one space in web apps is astoundingly simple, however -- only one will ever be rendered by a browser anyway. I think this is therefore moot (and in no small way offtopic). jh (Formerly someone who had to know this stuff professionally) -- ------------------------------------------- John Handelaar E john@handelaar.org T +353 21 427 9033 M +353 85 748 3790 http://handelaar.org ------------------------------------------- Work in progress: http://dev.vocalvoter.com -------------------------------------------