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| FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. Dear CMOS: In your style guide you write that there is no space between a...number and the % symbol. But in math it’s normal to put a space between a number and a symbol. It’s..., we are aware that a space is used between a numeral and the percent symbol in the International... |
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| FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. How do you handle the spacing with a name that is only initials? Do you...put a space between the initials or not? For example: “My friend B.J. is an awesome skater.” Or “My... |
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| FAQ Item Hyphens, En Dashes, Em Dashes Q. My colleagues in marketing add a full space before and...after a hyphen rather than using a dash without spaces. I agree with CMOS on the proper uses of...hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes, but haven’t seen any direction about the spaces before and after these... |
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| some other contraction, should there be a space between the opening quotation mark and the apostrophe...? I believe that the Manual suggests a space between a single quotation mark and closing quotes, and I...wondered if a similar rule applied. A. Yes, a similar rule would apply. But note that a thin space ... |
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| FAQ Item Commas Q. An academic friend does not use a space following a comma,as this demonstrates...recently as the nineteenth century, spaces before commas were common, at least in French. Guide pratique du...: That first line of text (in a detail from page 182) says that in English practice there’s no space ... |
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| ellipses to indicate text omitted from quoted material. Does one insert a space after the ellipsis if the...cases? The example in CMOS 13.53 appears to have a space but is not clear. A. Chicago puts a space ...after an ellipsis regardless of its function. If you have trouble seeing spaces in CMOS Online, use... |
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| number, is there a space between the number and the text of the note? Thanks! A. There is if you let...either application. Consider also that such spaces may help readers identify footnotes more easily...(which is why we use them at CMOS Shop Talk). But either choice, space or no space, is acceptable in... |
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| use Chicago’s spaced periods? A. Either way is OK as long as you’re consistent. If you use the...ellipsis character, put a space before and after it … like that. At the end of a sentence, it follows a...period and a space, like this. … If a comma or other punctuation follows, close it up to the ellipsis... |
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| does Chicago recommend indicating that there should be one space between two words rather than two...? Even a carefully placed “close up space” mark might suggest that both spaces should be deleted. A. You... space. If there are spacing issues throughout, you should make a general comment at the top of the... |
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| LaFleur—should there be a space between the a and the f? Should the L be in caps or lowercase? When...spelling place-names, there is a space—Los Angeles would never be spelled without the space—right? I am... |
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