Writing

Using proper typography

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This topic deals with typographical characters including copyright and trademark symbols, the degree symbol, en-dashes, en-spaces, em-dashes, and em-spaces, and their proper usage.

See Working with Character Entities in FP.

It also deals with fundamental spelling and sentence structure including use of language and Jump down to subject capitalisation. See The Importance of Quality Practices.

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Capitalisation

Most editing and writing texts recommend initial caps for beginnings of sentences, geographic areas [eg, the Midwest], titles preceding people's names, days and months, and proper nouns. Government agencies often prefer Federal, State and Local to precede 'government'.

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See Also

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