Index talk:The Urantia Book, 1st Edition.djvu

The Urantia Book is gigantic, and fully standardizing and validating this work will take some co-ordination on approaches to styling.

• Basics:
  • Stick quotes and stick apostrophes, not the curly kind.
  • One space after end of sentence.
  • No spaces around em-dashes, and use true em-dashes, not hyphen our double-hyphen.
  • For CSS, no custom fonts. Avoid CSS styling on pages, make an index.css if needed.
  • For italics, use ''apostrophe styling''
  • {{nop}} when a paragraph ends at page bottom, for proper transclusion.
  • {{nop}}--blank line--{{nop}} when a section ends at page bottom.
  • Hyphenated words that break across page break do not need {{hws}} and {{hwe}}. Just leave hyphen and transclusion solves it.

• Hyphenated words across linebreaks. Remove during proofreading. Some words have antiquated hyphenation that should be retained and not removed (e.g., "co-operate")
• Linebreaks. For proofread stage, leave OCR hard linebreaks. For final validation, remove them.
  • In a few instances, section titles span more than one line. Preserve the hard line breaks using {{br}}, but only if collapsing the linebreak would produce a strange result (e.g. text page 673 should keep a linebreak, but text page 1662 should collapse the linebreak).
• Paragraph gaps. There is often extra gapping between paragraphs to reflect breaks in thought. Two blank lines (three returns) should reflect this.
• B.C. and A.D. Use {{BC}} and {{AD}}
• Poems. Use {{ppoem}} for these few occurrences, so long stanzas that break to a second line hang properly as in the source work.
• Complex numbered lists. If they comprise multiple paragraphs per numbered item and/or span many pages, just standard paragraphs (not indented) like this: 1. List item
• Simple numbered lists. Use {{*!/s}}First item{{*!/i}}Second item{{*!/e}}
• Lists with dots and numbers. Such as on text page 392. Use {{dtpl}}
• Multilevel lists. Especially in Paper 30. Use : and :: to indent as needed.
• Asterisks separating sections. use {{x-larger|{{***|x}}}} where x is the number of asterisks to put in.
• Em dashes or hard hyphens at end of page. use {{peh|x}} where x is the character to put there, or blank for a - hyphen
• Running header. Each page gets one akin to {{rh|110|{{sc|Central and Superuniverses}}}} or {{rh||{{sc|Later Evolution of Religion}}|1005}}
• Footer. Page numbers are at bottom only occasionally. Use {{c|123}}. No <references /> as there are no footnotes in this work.

• Start of a paper:

{{ph/leveled|{{fine|PAPER 2}}
THE NATURE OF GOD}}
(2 blank lines)
{{di|F}}{{uc|irst words}} and more words

• Section titles:

(2 blank lines separate section from end of previous section)
{{ph/leveled|level=3|id=section1|1. TITLE}} No em spaces for æsthetics.