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Originally Posted by John F
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All caps also drop caps, large raised caps, small caps at all at all.
Badly done Dialect, especially of Irish characters, Yorkshire, Glasgow, American South.
Misuse or excessive – en dash – or—em dash—or bold or italic (or every bold and italic coded as <strong> and <em>) and ellipsis…
Use someone's style guide at the very least. Don't try and duplicate 19th C. paper books, or modern ones aping them.
Not realising ‘90s should be ’90s. A “bug” since forever in almost all wordprocessors when you blindly rely on smart quote conversion.
Using ' or " for quotes.
Using ' or " or ’ or ” instead of prime ′ and double prime ″ for feet, inches, minutes & seconds (angular)
Using white space (space, tab, newline) instead of paragraph margin styles.