From: Lady <redacted>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 04:45:42 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: More orthography ideas
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More orthography ideas
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@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ This page lists various ideas editors of this wiki have had regarding
   English orthography and various improvements or changes which might
   be made there·with.
 
-## middle dot (middot)
+## punctuation
+
+### middle dot (middot)
 
 ::: thread
 
@@ -28,3 +30,134 @@ This page lists various ideas editors of this wiki have had regarding
   [][@:Lady]{.sig}
 
 :::
+
+### quoting
+
+::: thread
+
+- I use single quotes (‹ ‘’ ›) as a general quotation mark and double
+    quotes (‹ “” ›) for scare quotes.
+  Guillemets (‹ «» ›) are for exact quotations from written sources and
+    should be separated from their contents by a narrow nonbreaking
+    space.
+  “Single” angle quotation marks (‹ ‹› ›) are for quoting exact strings
+    or sequences of characters irrespective of their meaning.
+  [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+  - The closing single quote (‹ ’ ›) is also the apostrophe character;
+      for a while I used a straight quote (‹ ' ›) for apostrophe, but
+      this isn’t what Unicode recommends and frankly doesn’t look as
+      nice.
+    I’d be open to alternative proposals for apostrophe—maybe broken
+      bar (‹ ¦ ›)?
+    [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+- A narrow nonbreaking space should be placed between adjacent raised
+    quotes, for example when a spoken quotation begins or ends with an
+    apostrophe.
+  [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+:::
+
+### dog’s bollocks
+
+::: thread
+
+- I use a dog’s bollocks (‹ ::wj:— ›) to introduce a list of items.
+  There is also a reverse variant (‹ —:wj:: ›) for transitioning from a
+    list to a comment there·about.
+  In both cases, these replace the ordinary colon by giving it a
+    directionality.
+  I always separate the colon side from neighbouring words with a
+    narrow nonbreaking space, and the emdash side with a full
+    (breaking) space.
+  [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+  - Lines should not be broken between the colon and the dash, but
+      software sometimes does anyway.
+    This can be prevented by adding a word joiner between the two.
+    [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+  - On this _Wiki_{as=cite}, I’ve defined `:8--:` and `:--8:` as
+      shorthands for the whole “narrow nobreak space, colon, word
+      joiner, emdash” combo.
+    [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+:::
+
+### dagger
+
+::: thread
+
+- I use single (‹ † ›) and double (‹ ‡ ›) dagger as proper name marks,
+    in contexts where capitalization is not an option or desirable.
+  The rules are as follows:8--:
+  If the name consists of only one word, place a single dagger before
+    it.
+  If the name consists of multiple words, place a dagger before the
+    first word and after the last.
+  If the name consists of multiple parts, use a nested double dagger to
+    denote the most significant part (e·g a family name).
+  For example, one might write “Zelda Hyrule” as †zelda ‡hyrule† or
+    “Mizutani Shizuku” as †‡mizutani shizuku†.
+  [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+:::
+
+### sets
+
+(By “sets”, lists of items such as “a, b & c” is meant.)
+
+::: thread
+
+- For sets of items, I wrap them in curly braces (‹ \{} ›) whenever
+    things seem ambiguous.
+  This obviates the need for a comma before the set operator, which
+    looks unpleasant.
+  (I do use a final comma in a non·operator context, such as before the
+    written word “and”.)
+  [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+- In addition to the ampersand (‹ & ›) indicating “all of a set”, I
+    employ the pipe (‹ ∣ ›) to indicate “some of a set” and the
+    solidus (‹ ∕ ›) to indicate “one of a set”.
+  (One might imagine the reverse solidus (‹ ⧵ ›) used to represent
+    “none of a set”.)
+  Note that these are the mathematical operators, not the vertical bar
+    (‹ | ›), slash (‹ / ›), and backslash (‹ \ ›) from Ascii (the
+    ampersand is the same).
+  [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+  - Typically I only use these in set of two items, because I don’t
+      expect people to know how to read “you may have a, b ∕ c” (but
+      “you may have b ∕ c” is clearer).
+    [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+  - Many fonts are bad at rendering the mathematical solidus, perhaps
+      confusing it with the fraction slash.
+    [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+:::
+
+### per sign
+
+::: thread
+
+- I use the per sign (‹ ⅌ ›) in place of the word _per_{as=i},
+    including in attributing thoughts (“cats are good, ⅌ æscling”).
+  [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+:::
+
+## spelling
+
+### tironian et
+
+::: thread
+
+- I use tironian et (‹ ⹒⁊ ›) to replace the _et_{as=i} in phrases such
+    as _et cetera_{as=i} (abbreviated ‹ ⁊·c ›) as well as as a
+    generalpurpose “and” sign.
+  [][@:Lady]{.sig}
+
+:::