Questions tagged [formatting]
Questions about text appearance: styling, placement, fonts, indents, bullets.
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How can I produce italics for the APA 7th style, if I am using the plain text format?
How can I produce italics for the APA 7th style, if I am using the plain text format?
The plain text format does not support the formatting of text to use italics.
Can I use some standard symbols to ...
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How do readers typically view/respond to atypically formatted stories?
I personally struggle with reading most normally formatted fictional narratives compared with my ease of reading atypical ones, so I am considering writing one of mine in a ‘weird’ way.
By typical I ...
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How to format transitions between paragraphs?
How to format a transition between two paragraphs?
At the end of the first pg
Standalone
At the beginning of the second pg
What about indents and line breaks?
Thanks!
[First paragraph content.]
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Automating the checking of formatting issues
I'm taking a large number of documents that are in one format and using some tools to convert them into a different format. My concern is that some of the formatting could have been compromised during ...
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How to write a synopsis/query when the story has more than one POV
I’ve recently been trying to work on my query letter / synopsis for my historical fiction novel. There are 4 POVs.
I was told once if your story has more than one pov, in your query letter/synopsis, ...
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Should I italicize brand names and song titles?
I'm doing the final edits to my book. I often refer to music and brand names of clothing worn to set the tone. My question is when mentioning a brand name or song and artist can I italicize the brand ...
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How to format a dialogue with quotes of poetry?
I'm working on a typeset of Dorothy L. Sayers' novel Clouds of Witness. Sometimes the characters will quote poetry when they're speaking:
'Hurray!' said Peter.
'Then downwards from the steep hill's ...
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Formatting cover letter
This website gives several examples of cover letters. They typically begin:
December 1, 2010
Miriam A. Nunberg
Staff Attorney
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
32 Old Slip, 26th ...
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Screenplay formatting: How to get ~55 lines with 12 point Courier
All of the sources I've found suggest that screenplays use 1-inch margins on the top and bottom, 12-point Courier, 8.5" by 11" paper, and have approximately 55 lines per page.
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Multiple-paragraph block quotation
I'm currently working on editing an academic paper in APA-7 format for a friend. This paper has a multiple-paragraph block-quote in it (specifically, the entire text of the short manifesto "The ...
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How would you format dialogue that is in the middle of a sentence?
Below I will provide an example sentence in various forms to demonstrate what I mean. I want to see which punctuation is correct or most widely accepted. My assumption is an example will be correct ...
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How should I format a surprise scene change such that it reads coherently but is still a surprise?
In the current WIP chapter of my most popular web serial, there is a scene at the beginning that is presented as happening "now" (that is, having regular story focus) only to be suddenly ...
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When writting someone’s credentials in a text, is it capitalized?
I wrote "French egyptologist Jean Yoyotte suggested that, as Memphis already had a presence of Greek speakers, Herodotus could have used them to speak to the priesthood."
Should I instead ...
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In a bibliography hanging indentation, what is the appropriate indentation amount?
According to the Chicago Manual of Style, a bibliography entry should be set in a hanging indentation (where the first line is set flush left, and subsequent lines are "indented").
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Formatting poetry collection and formatting standards
What does the industry use? I thought about just copy pasting the lyrics into a file format and then appending them in one file, but I am wondering if most publisher use some kind of software to put ...
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