Thread for agreeing on conventions

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exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

i like the european convention of capitalising family names on forms etc.
double-spacing after a full stop was always unnecessary, even for monospaced typewriters

Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style posted:

In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit. As a general rule, no more than a single space is required after a period, colon or any other mark of punctuation.

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exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

yeah. it's also useful in situations where someone has a compound non-hyphenated given or family name (julie anne GENTER, iain DUNCAN SMITH), or where you have a mix of names using both the eastern and western orders (XI jinping, joe BIDEN)

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exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Leperflesh posted:

If you block-cap the surname, how do you know if someone is Seamus MacAllan or Seamus Macallan?

use small caps for the "ac" or something idk

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