Timeline for What are the typographically correct ways to name chapters in a book in Spanish?
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| Sep 12, 2019 at 22:25 | comment | added | aparente001 | @MrVocabulary - That's what the Lorem Ipsum dummy text is designed for. It really helps visualize page and webpage design and layout. | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 16:49 | comment | added | MrVocabulary | @aparente001 I am talking primarily about fiction. As for the other details—that assumes I know the relevant categories in advance, which I don't. Also I don't treat this as a case-dependent category; I am looking for rather generalized approach :) | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 15:12 | comment | added | aparente001 | Is it fiction or nonfiction? Typically how long are the chapter titles? Will they wrap around? Can you give us a screenshot of what you are proposing that it will look like? (You can change the text to some dummy Lorem Ipsum text if you wish.) How much would it bother you if your table of contents had a somewhat non-standard look to it? | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 15:10 | comment | added | aparente001 | It's your question. I won't be subversive and add that information to your question myself. Your comment will probably not be erased, so in practice it doesn't really matter; but I've consistently seen on ELU, a more established language site, that it's considered good practice to explain motivation for word, phrase and expression requests. In this case, you are essentially doing a print formatting request. The more you can explain about why you want to know, the better volunteers can help you. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 5:07 | comment | added | MrVocabulary | @aparente001 tbh I disagree, as it should in no way change answers. Same standards exist regardless of my purposes. Same goes for question such like "how do you spell X". | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 4:33 | comment | added | aparente001 | Aha. That would be worthwhile adding to the question. | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 18:17 | comment | added | MrVocabulary | Well, I want to reformat an ebook to a format I am more familiar with, and I am wondering if it conforms to official and unwritten rules in Spanish, namely the two cases I quoted. | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 18:07 | comment | added | aparente001 | @MrVocabulary - Thank you. I think I'm starting to understand better what you said about struggling. You are looking for a simple rule or set of rules, because you are interested in comparing among various languages. Also, you are interested in how the rules might have changed over time. Is that right? | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 13:19 | comment | added | MrVocabulary | @aparente001 I was about to answer your comment broadly, but tbh I don't really understand your question. Can you answer this: “1. Does Spanish punctuation allow the use a dash here?”? If you can, then please provide an answer. If there is a difference between official rules and common usage, please relate to this. If this changed over time, please relate to this. If this varies between Spanish-speaking countries, please relate to this. It seems as if you required me to know all potential problems in advance. In Czech it took me 15 minutes to learn all the punctuation by comparison. | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 12:52 | comment | added | aparente001 | You said you were struggling. How so? What leads you to be interested in this? Do you want to know what rules publishers give their authors? Do you want to know what common practice is? Is your interest confined to modern publishing, or is there a broader period that interests you? | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 8:14 | comment | added | MrVocabulary | @aparente001 well, typography is what I am asking about. Which part is unclear? I bave read the rules, but they don't answer all questions that rules in other languages answer clearly. For instance, rules say it can only.be "Primer capítulo", but three books in a row have "Capítulo I.". Hence I am asking about both normative standards and common usage. | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 4:40 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 8, 2019 at 4:23 | comment | added | aparente001 | Voting to close as unclear what you're asking. If you publish with an established firm, they will have their house rules and you'll have to live with them; if you self-publish, you can do what you want (but I hope you'll be consistent with whatever scheme you come up with). I don't understand why you say you're struggling. The way the question is written, it's not clear how it's based on anything other than idle curiosity. | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 22:38 | answer | added | user0721090601 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 15:27 | history | asked | MrVocabulary | CC BY-SA 4.0 |