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cybmole · 12-07-2011, 11:28 PM

Hitch - thanks for the link.

I am curious as to how style "rules" such as the detailed ones for quotation marks come into being - have they just evolved during history of publishing then gotten written down?
do big book publishers have style "bibles" in which all such things are documented or is that left to academia?
do printed book publishers have automated tools to check / enforce such styles?

back with the spell checker issue - a UK to US spelling converter & vice-versa plug in could be a future nice-to-have . I assume that conversion tables already exist online somewhere, at least for the most common terms - like color/colour?

12-07-2011, 11:28 PM	#33
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	Hitch - thanks for the link. I am curious as to how style "rules" such as the detailed ones for quotation marks come into being - have they just evolved during history of publishing then gotten written down? do big book publishers have style "bibles" in which all such things are documented or is that left to academia? do printed book publishers have automated tools to check / enforce such styles? back with the spell checker issue - a UK to US spelling converter & vice-versa plug in could be a future nice-to-have . I assume that conversion tables already exist online somewhere, at least for the most common terms - like color/colour? Last edited by cybmole; 12-07-2011 at 11:31 PM.