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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
I know precisely what you mean. I don't use their (maddening) markup code, but I do like the idea of killing italics on currently common words (alibi, role, cafe, etc); killing hyphens on words we don't hyphenate any more (apologies to purists, but to -day with a hyphen is just irritating to me), and a bunch of other simplifications they use. So I steal the ideas, and use simple markup.  |
I'm in the *it depends* camp on hyphens. For instance, and you'll hate me, but if I get going on the Jerry Todd's and Poppy Ott's, the to-days are probably gonna stand. Because I grew up up with those books and it would feel downright ODD not to see them. But I'll think on it.
But in some books, you'll get a single or double instance of teen-ager or week-end or something like that, and I don't necessarily feel the need to preserve those. I do tend to go with the modern style of not italicizing punctuation. And I most definitely separate out my italics by vocal emphasis vs. visual emphasis.
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