[Forum] RE: Hyphenated Compounds in Titles

Our style is to cap both elements if the second carries as much weight as the first. Chicago's "break the rules" examples point out the short and unstressed elements: Hand-me-downs and Forget-me-nots (lowercase short and unstressed elements) Run-ins and Take-offs (lowercase short and unstressed

[Forum] RE: Catch-all term for tables, figures, text boxes ...

Thank you for the helpful and welcoming replies. I'd be all for using "Elements" but for the fact that this page title will be listed in the report's main table of contents, and the title "Elements" or "List of elements" would strike me as unduly cryptic (or, if anything, chemistry-related). Althoug

[Forum] RE: Lists

Thanks for your reply. Yes, this is an academic book, both lists are vertical and bulleted. The elements of neither list are complete sentences, thus no closing punctuation. The lists are not rambling, but they're too long to run in to text, with or without numbers. Changing to ". . . the followin

[Forum] RE: Hyphens with prefixes: advanced question

Not bad. I suppose that could work. However, this recommendation is to use the en dash "in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements is an open compound or when two or more of its elements are open compounds or hyphenated compounds." In the case I mentioned the first two ele

[Forum] RE: Formatting Games and Game Maps/Levels

Usually elements within elements are not italic. Sometimes they're quoted (like articles within journals or chapters within books), but sometimes they can just stand alone with simple caps (like the name of a recurring newspaper section, e.g., Talk of the Town, as in CMOS 8.175). I think the Dust le

[Forum] RE: Plural or singular with omitted noun

I'd simplify and rephrase: [i][b]Assuming the respective models for the[/b] octonions, the subspace spanned by elements  [b]of[/b] the Zorn model becomes the subspace of elements [b]of [/b]the Cayley–Dickson model.[/i]

[Forum] Capping Plural Common-Noun Elements

Chicago caps common-noun elements in “Fifth and Sixth [u]Avenues[/u],” “the Atlantic and Pacific [u]Oceans[/u],” “Fifth and Sixth [u]Streets[/u], etc. Would “amendments” be capped, as in “the Sixth and Seventh Amendments”? Cap “Amendments”? [b]By extension, does this rule apply to all plural c

[Forum] RE: en dash

I would refer to CMOS 6.85: [i]The en dash is used in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements is an open compound or when two or more of its elements are open compounds or hyphenated compounds (see 7.83).[/i] I have not heard of an en dash replacing a hyphen for relatio

[Forum] RE: Overlapping sets

[quote='wardweb' pid='36647' dateline='1526078895'] In a context where a sample is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, where separate sets of data are listed as "1 to 3," "3 to 6," and "6 to 9," should this be objected to as incorrect, because it's ambiguous where 3 and 6 belong? [/quote] Depends on

[Forum] RE: from this to that

Include "from," and include the comma. Without it, I started parsing "your bicycle, the lamp on your desk" as the first two elements of a series and parsing "to the office vending machine and the toys you played with as a child" as paired elements. You will also need a comma after "smoothie" if it's