Friday, April 07, 2006

Style Change

The Capper writes:

I should have announced this stylistic change in a more formal fashion: In the Music section, Kate has changed the format of the album and live-show information. Instead of doing it at the end like we used to do (and still do in all the other sections), we now put it in a little gray box somewhere in the middle of the copy. She generally puts it at the top of the file with a note to art department tagged "info box." We don't have a style sheet for it -- it's probably fine to leave it as File Info, as long as it's clearly tagged for the art department and it's up at the top of the file. If I remember to do it, though, I just style it manually as Triplex Serif bold 9.5/11 ... And it gets bullets (option/8 is the keystroke) instead of the vertical lines in between. A recent example can be found in issue 15, page 100. The wording of the live-show info tends to vary a little bit -- I'm still trying to zero in on a permanent formula, which I'll let everyone know about if I do. The one on page 100 there is a good guide to follow.

10 comments:

  1. Stay tuned, folks. More to follow ...

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  2. Great question. The L.A. Weekly and most other publications will just use the apostrophe: Moss'.

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  3. And if it's not a proper name, just a word that ends in double-s, we add an apostrophe-s. Thus: "the boss's daughter."

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