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Archive for January, 2010

29
Jan

Quotation Marks with Drop Caps

My editing colleague, Linda Lane of Pen & Sword Publishers, reminded me of a rule I had forgotten. I thought you might need a reminder too.
Quotation marks are omitted when they precede a drop cap at the beginning of an article, story, or chapter.
(Drop caps are a typographic decoration placed at the top of an [...]

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