Julie Sumwalt
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Hi Cindy,
This would be a good question for the Formats forum. Please repost your query there.
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Hi,
I am going to punt this one over to the Formats forum. Please repost your question there.
Thanks,
Julie
Hi Cindy,
Thank you for the image. It was very helpful. UEB does not make a distinction between acronyms and abbreviations when considering contraction usage, only between how they are pronounced. See UEB 10.12.1 and 10.12.2. So we need to decide if OFF would be pronounced as "off" or "O-F-F." Since this is about Office 2013, and "office" uses the OF contraction, I would pronounce it as "off" and use the OF contraction.
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Hi Abby,
No, there is not a baseline indicator in UEB. The superscript indicator only affects the next item. The definition of an item is found in Guidelines for Technical Material (GTM) 12.1. You can find examples of left-displaced superscripts and subscripts in GTM 7.8.
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Hi Cynthia,
There is no hard rule about this situation, but we are in agreement with you in treating the credentials as a passage. Great question!
Julie
Hi Tung,
You are correct. CDs does not need the grade 1 symbol indicator because CD is not standing alone any more with the s after it (2.6). It does, however, require the capitals terminator before the s because the capital word indicator carries through letters unless it is explicitly stopped (8.4.1).
That said, CD's is the opposite. Now a grade 1 symbol (not word) (10.9.5) indicator is needed because CD is standing alone (2.6.4). The apostrophe stops capitals mode (8.4.2) so a capitals terminator is not needed.
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Hi Fred,
I can see you've put a lot of thought into this. There are reasons why the symbols are the way they are, however. Please see my comments in the attachment.
Regards,
Julie
Hi,
There are two symbols-sequences: "3-D" and "printer". You need the bold word indicator in front of each of these sequences. Only a space or terminator stops the bold word effect, so, yes, you need a bold terminator after "printer".
Standing alone has to do with contraction usage, not typeforms. With typeforms, you are focusing on symbols-sequences. For instance, "in" in "father-in-law" is standing alone because there is a dash on either side of it. You can use the contraction for "in". The entire compound word, however, only needs one italic word indicator in front of it if the whole thing is italicized. If only "in" were italicized, then you would need the italic terminator after "in" to prevent "law" from also being italicized.
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Hi Mike,
In this case, the ellipsis represents symbols-sequences that would likely be italicized as well, so treating this as a passage makes sense.
Regards,
Julie
Hi Mike,
Follow print as much as possible. If you can tell that the emphasis does not carry through the asterisk (or number or letter superscript), then a terminator would be required. If you can tell that the emphasis does carry through asterisk (or number or letter superscript), then no terminator is needed. If in doubt, choose one way or the other and be consistent.
Regards,
Julie
Hi Greta,
Right, the capital indicator after Quick cancels its standing alone status and signifies the start of a new word. "QuickPay" is two unspaced words. "Quickpay" is one word and according to UEB 10.9.3c the shortform could be used.
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Hello,
Glad you asked! Each symbols-sequence needs to be italicized separately. The numeric space indicator is only used for numeric segments of a single number. It isn't meant to keep symbols-sequences together in general. It would not be appropriate here because the letters GMT do not represent numbers.
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