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created: 20141226192500000
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modified: 20150117152559000
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title: Typography
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tags: documenting
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Use the [[documentation macros|Documentation Macros]] to keep the text maintainable in the face of change.
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Be wary of arbitrarily applying raw bold or italic markup in a sentence. If there's a suitable macro, use that instead. If there isn't a suitable macro, write one or request one.
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Use simple backticks (<code>`...`</code>) for fragments of WikiText, but not for the names of things like fields and widgets. These have their own macros.
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To keep things clean and simple, quotation marks and apostrophes should be straight `'`, not curly `’`, and the ellipsis should be three separate dots `...` rather than `…`.
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Use `"` as the primary quotation mark, reserving `'` for the rare case of a nested quotation.
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Avoid using a single hyphen `-` as sentence punctuation. Instead, use a double hyphen -- which ~TiddlyWiki renders as an en-dash -- with a space on either side.
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Items in lists and tables should only end with a full stop (period in US English) if they are complete sentences. They should have no trailing punctuation otherwise.
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It is very rarely necessary to use an exclamation mark in professional documentation.
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