A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges

A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Formatting.

Italics

Bring on the boxing gloves!

The most pressing question is how to handle numerals in the "Sentences" section, starting on page 179. These numerals are part of a package that goes

author (maybe), work (maybe), exact citation

with further nuances according to an arcane formula hidden on page 498.

Definitely italicized

Emphatic English words everywhere in the book.

Translations of Latin text (generally shown earlier in the paragraph in bold).

Abbreviated title of work, usually preceded by abbreviated author; see page 498 for exceptions. This page lists the abbreviated titles of all Latin sources used in the book's examples, and should help make it clear which parts are italicized.

Subsections of main numbered items, as on page 176.

1009. (1b.) The following deponents in -ērī ... 

 <b>1009.</b> (1<i>b.</i>) The following deponents in <b>-êrî</b> ... 

The number is not italicized. Subsections in the form (1.) do not need to be formatted in any way.

The letter should include the full stop (period) inside the italics, whether or not there is a preceding number: (1<i>b.</i>) or (<i>b.</i>)

Definitely not italicized

Author's name (one or two letters) in citations.

To be decided

Numerals (from one to three, separated by commas) identifying the exact citation, usually preceded by abbreviated title. Physically these numerals are not printed in italics, but...

On the one hand numerals might be considered as part of the work title, and therefore italicized according to the generic Guideline that says to pretend numerals are italic, or match them to the surrounding text.

On the other hand (following Forums observation made by jhc) leaving the numerals non-italic allows the translation to stand out visually, as an italic island surrounded by non-italic text.

Punctuation and Inline Markup

General question: inside or outside? Unless someone finds a horrible exception, all inline markup (bold, italic, small caps) will be handled the same way.

Definitely inside markup:

Period after section number at the beginning of each paragraph.

Any period in any abbreviation anywhere.

Question marks and exclamation marks that are part of quoted text or translation.

Hyphen introducing a partial word or ending such as -st or -ing, and similarly hyphen after prefixes such as prae-.

Comma between work title and following numerals if it is decided to make the numerals italic (above).

Definitely not inside markup:

Comma between numerals and translation if it is decided to make the numerals italic (above).

Any punctuation after section number in mid-paragraph cross-references.

To be decided:

Assorted colons, semicolons and whatnot.

Commas in different types of list or series. (This is vague.)

Font Sizes

The body text of this book has 5 (five) font sizes. Most pages don't use all five; png 006 is one that does. See here for the full spectrum. (The sections in red boxes, with point sizes marked, were added for comparison.)

When you are working one page at a time, it is impossible to tell which of the five sizes a given paragraph is in, so leave everything to the post-processor. Do not use /# #/ markup unless it is needed for a non-size-related reason such as marking hanging indents.

Words and phrases in boldface tend not to match the surrounding text at all, and may look as if there has been a mid-paragraph size change. Ignore this and just mark the boldface as needed.

More Stuff

timbabwe summarized the trends of the project discussion as:

• Change ALL-CAPS TITLES to <sc>Mixed-Caps Titles</sc> [as necessary]

• He seems to use Arabic numerals consistently, so you never need to stop and figure out whether II means two or eleven. (from Lucy24)