[Forum] Spacing Between Sentences

The guide recommends one space between sentences and after colons, but I've seen other guides that recommend two spaces. What is the thinking on this? Are these truly just recommendations, or do publishers tend to have pretty strict rules about them? I would hate to have a manuscript rejected ove

[Forum] RE: Neither-nor question

[quote='Lorem Ipsum' pid='34969' dateline='1510464052'] Some designers like the spaces, and I think this could be fairly considered a design issue. [/quote] What we or designers think doesn't affect CMOS standards.

[Forum] RE: from this to that

[quote='RGJaxon' pid='24196' dateline='1437601233'] Speaking of song lyrics, eh? :-) [/quote] Her pronouns were all in agreement Her commas were in the right places Her sentences all separated By only singular spaces. I'd better stop before I get myself in trouble, if I haven't already.

[Forum] RE: Spacing before and after forward slash

I'm probably stating the obvious but I would not use a space around slashes in doi numbers or URLs. I would use a space when the slash indicates mathematical division (not even sure if that is acceptable off the top of my head, but I know the spaces would be appropriate there). As others have mentio

[Forum] RE: Open vs. closed em dashes

Em dashes (in CMOS) do not have spaces before or after them. Just take a look at any of the examples in the book or, for starters, see [url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch06/ch06_sec082.html]CMOS 6.82[/url]. If the designer wants to add a hairline space before and after the em dash for aes

[Forum] Making an ellipse

I'm curious. What method do you use in making an ellipse? The Microsoft Word special character (ellipse) or the creation of a macro consisting of nonbreaking spaces and periods?

[Forum] RE: Punctuation

Well, it might depend on the software, but I just went and tried it in Word. If I don't put spaces before or after the em-dash, it only breaks after the dash. In other words it keeps the dash with the word before it. When I put a space before and after, it allows a break in either location, before

[Forum] re:spaces in company's name

Thanks---it has been done both ways on company letterhead, sales literature, various printed documents. No one in the company has raised the issue until now. That's why I'm just trying to get a sense of what is common practice. And it's interesting to recommend what is on the letterhead...

[Forum] RE: En or em dash or hyphen? Colon?

I think it depends on the context. My first instinct (like Pixna's) is to use a colon. I've just checked my MW (both hard copy and online), and they use a colon. However, in certain informal usage, I might use a hyphen (with spaces before and after, as you have it in your question).

[Forum] RE: reprinting old text

Well, that is what they do with the e-books. That is the final version. The pages of the original book "end and start" here and there--wherever they land on the PDF. There are large spaces of blank space between the end of the last page and the start of the next--with the page number in between.