A few matters of style on this website that we would like to keep moving forward. All articles should follow them without question and if anyone finds them not held in article text, I ask that you let me know immediately. Other types of content may be excused for not adhering to these principles:

• All abbreviations wrapped in <abbr> (small caps). We used this style previously on Inter Caetera only for abbreviations that were four letters or longer. This was a bit weird, when we had, for example: “JS, CSS and HTML.” To be consistent, here we will use them always.

• Closely-held em-dash: Inter Caetera was inconsistent with its typography, sometimes using hyphens, sometimes spaced em-dashes (” --- ”), other times closely-held em-dashes. For consistency, we will stick to the style of closely-held em-dash (which Merriam Webster says is characteristic of books, which is good I guess). Also, en-dashes for ranges (“2—5 days”) and hyphens for (obviously) hyphenation.

• We avoid bold in serif-typeset text (articles). Whenever any text calls for bold we will use <mark> instead, but we’ll try to limit its use because we are not a content-marketing-slop factory.

• We don’t use h1/# headings in text, they are reserved only for the main title, top-level headings should be h2/##.

• We follow the American style of punctuation around quotes: full stops and commas that follow a quotation mark go on the inside of the quotation marks. “‘This is a good idea,’ she said.”