wrong side of write
An opinionated blog about writing. I’ve subscribed in my feed reader.
Link tags: punctuation
14
Regarding the Em Dash - The Millions
I like a good em dash, me.
Typography Wars: Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? - The Atlantic
Glenn Fleishman on the war of attrition between primes and quotation marks on the web.
yurivictor/typebetter
A really nifty little bit of JavaScript that converts to smart quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, and em dashes.
(Initially it required jQuery but I tweaked it to avoid those dependencies and Yuri very kindly merged my pull request—such a lovely warm feeling when that happens.)
Smart Quotes for Smart People
Jason provides some instruction in using the correct quotation marks online.
Quotes and Accents
Jessica’s handy guide to writing the right quotes and accents on a Mac keyboard.
Shady Characters
The secret life of punctuation.
Comma quirk irks Rogers - The Globe and Mail
Punctuation matters.
Entity Code - A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Entities Codes
A handy page for looking up HTML entities.
Dashed Bad Form | Standpoint.Online
A humorous comparison of the em dash and the semicolon; but this online setting scuppers the author's wit by using hyphens instead of em dashes — punctuation-derived humour fail!
A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
This article is an oldie but a goodie. I find myself referring to it all the time: "Beating typographic correctness out of (X)HTML: more than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography."
Typography for Lawyers
Trying to teach legibility, one legal document at a time.
Research Tools | Economist.com | Economist.com
The Economist style guide: the "dos and don'ts" section is particularly useful.
Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books: Punctuation is no place for zero tolerance
One of my 43 Things is to eliminate the grocer's apostrophe. Still... this is a well-reasoned argument in its defence.