Editing notes, for Steph's reference.
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changelingQuotation marks
Purposes
• Direct speech
• Quotations (Note that for quotes of more than a certain length, the quote may be formatted and set separately from the text.)
• Names of articles (it’s lower in the hierarchy than the italics: books would be italics, chapters would be in quotation marks. Etc.) &c, also unpublished theses.
• Slang, special terms, jargon, words for emphasis or irony
There are two styles for quotation marks; either double outer (“”) and single inner (this is newspaper and magazine style) or single outer quotes and double inner quotes (this style is the primary style in book publishing).
There are some academic styles that mix this up a little (using double quotes for quotations and single for irony, but this is a little frowned upon).
Quotation marks can alter the way that punctuation nearby is used. The style used in fiction can be different to non-fiction.
Rules for punctuation with fiction
• The punctuation (full stop or comma) is placed inside the closing quotation marks, e.g.: "When Bill thinks of you, she thinks of two men having sex."
• If there is an attribution (he said, she wheezed, it begged - note that attributions tell the reader who said the quotation, and sometimes how. Actions like "Frederick jumped. 'Man, that's high.'" are not attributions as they do not actually inform how it's being said) after the quotation marks, a comma is used at the end of the final quoted sentence rather than a full stop. If the sentence ends in a question mark or an exclamation mark, it is not replaced with a comma, e.g.: "Stop!" cried the Archdeacon.
• If the attribution occurs before the quotation marks, the attribution is followed with a comma, then the quoted sentence begins with a capital letter. That comma is non-essential – it can be done without, but this is a stylistic decision and needs to be used consistently throughout, e.g.: The boy said, "That is all right."
• Note that if the attribution disrupts a quoted sentence, the attribution ends in a comma, and the second half of the disrupted sentence begins with a lower-case letter, e.g.: “Tell me,” said Anatole, leaning closer, “is it true you caught a manticore? Mister Mountbatten said it was very impressive.”
• Note that there is only one punctuation mark after the quote. You would never see “Again!”, shouted the count.
Purposes
• Direct speech
• Quotations (Note that for quotes of more than a certain length, the quote may be formatted and set separately from the text.)
• Names of articles (it’s lower in the hierarchy than the italics: books would be italics, chapters would be in quotation marks. Etc.) &c, also unpublished theses.
• Slang, special terms, jargon, words for emphasis or irony
There are two styles for quotation marks; either double outer (“”) and single inner (this is newspaper and magazine style) or single outer quotes and double inner quotes (this style is the primary style in book publishing).
There are some academic styles that mix this up a little (using double quotes for quotations and single for irony, but this is a little frowned upon).
Quotation marks can alter the way that punctuation nearby is used. The style used in fiction can be different to non-fiction.
Rules for punctuation with fiction
• The punctuation (full stop or comma) is placed inside the closing quotation marks, e.g.: "When Bill thinks of you, she thinks of two men having sex."
• If there is an attribution (he said, she wheezed, it begged - note that attributions tell the reader who said the quotation, and sometimes how. Actions like "Frederick jumped. 'Man, that's high.'" are not attributions as they do not actually inform how it's being said) after the quotation marks, a comma is used at the end of the final quoted sentence rather than a full stop. If the sentence ends in a question mark or an exclamation mark, it is not replaced with a comma, e.g.: "Stop!" cried the Archdeacon.
• If the attribution occurs before the quotation marks, the attribution is followed with a comma, then the quoted sentence begins with a capital letter. That comma is non-essential – it can be done without, but this is a stylistic decision and needs to be used consistently throughout, e.g.: The boy said, "That is all right."
• Note that if the attribution disrupts a quoted sentence, the attribution ends in a comma, and the second half of the disrupted sentence begins with a lower-case letter, e.g.: “Tell me,” said Anatole, leaning closer, “is it true you caught a manticore? Mister Mountbatten said it was very impressive.”
• Note that there is only one punctuation mark after the quote. You would never see “Again!”, shouted the count.
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Date: 2004-11-24 01:36 pm (UTC)And might I tell you how wigged I was, to see Anatole's name later? Is that an actual quote, or just something that came off your head?
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Date: 2004-11-25 02:49 am (UTC)*laughs* It's a quote. I named a character Anatole after the Aunt Dahlia's chef in Jeeves and Wooster.