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
 * when a paragraph ends at page bottom, for proper transclusion.
 * --blank line-- when a section ends at page bottom.
 * Hyphenated words that break across page break do not need and  . 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, 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 and
 * Poems. Use 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 First itemSecond item
 * Lists with dots and numbers. Such as on text page 392. Use
 * Multilevel lists. Especially in Paper 30. Use : and :: to indent as needed.
 * Asterisks separating sections. use where x is the number of asterisks to put in.
 * Em dashes or hard hyphens at end of page. use where x is the character to put there, or blank for a - hyphen
 * Running header. Each page gets one akin to 110 or Rh
 * Footer. Page numbers are at bottom only occasionally. Use . No as there are no footnotes in this work.

(2 blank lines) IRST WORDS and more words
 * Start of a paper:

(2 blank lines separate section from end of previous section) No em spaces for æsthetics.
 * Section titles: