From E-mail to Email: Is the Sky Falling?
One of the most tweeted updates to The Chicago Manual of Style in the recently released 17th edition was its change in the recommended spelling of email: no more hyphen. On the whole, the reaction of users
How Not to Look at Illustrations in The Chicago Manual of Style
As a reader of the email that comes to The Chicago Manual of Style, I regularly find myself explaining the purpose of the illustrations (figures and tables) to puzzled users. Two recent queries:
Chicago Style Workout 19: Plurals
This month’s workout, “Plurals,” centers on CMOS 17, paragraphs 7.5–15. Advanced editors might tackle the questions cold; learners can study that section of the Manual before answering.
Section 2.12 in the Spotlight
In a typed document, each new paragraph should begin with a first-line indent, applied either with the Tab key or with your word processor’s indentation feature rather than the Space bar. One-half inch is the traditional measure for an indent. Exceptions:
Chicago Style Workout 18: Hyphens, Part 2
This month’s workout, “Hyphens, Part 2,” centers on CMOS 17, paragraph 7.89 (our famous hyphenation table), and in particular section 2, “Compounds according to Parts of Speech.”
Sentence Adverbs
The 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style will arrive any day now! We’ve been looking at some of the changes and new material in the new edition. This week, we take a look at sentence adverbs.
Countdown to CMOS 17
CMOS 17 is almost here—and at the University of Chicago Press, that’s a really big deal. Every seven to ten years the team here revs up for an overhaul of The Chicago Manual of Style, and two to three years after that,
Chicago Style Workout 17: Hyphens, Part 1
This month’s workout, “Hyphens, Part 1,” centers on CMOS 17, paragraph 7.89, section 1, of our famous hyphenation table, “Compounds according to Category.” We’re calling this workout “part 1” because hyphens are a vast topic, destined to confound us in many ways and certainly worth a series of workouts.
Sections 8.167−68 in the Spotlight
Readers are sometimes puzzled by Chicago’s recommendations of when to lowercase or drop an initial the from the title of a work in running text. Sections 8.167 and 8.168 of CMOS (16th edition) lay out the rules. For a bonus, we’ll also cover the use of the in titles of websites (8.186) in running text. Chicago guidelines for the use of the
Chicago Style Workout 16:
Word Usage, Part 3
This month’s workout, “Word Usage, Part 3,” again centers on the usage list under paragraph 5.250 of CMOS 17. Writing and editing are more efficient when you never have to look up gauntlet or dither over farther versus further.
