{"id":1373,"date":"2003-08-12T20:05:26","date_gmt":"2003-08-13T03:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/08\/12\/1373.html"},"modified":"2003-08-12T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2003-08-13T03:05:26","slug":"happy-jed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/08\/12\/happy-jed\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Jed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Method #89-Q of making Jed happy: ensure that he receives the new 15th edition of the <cite>Chicago Manual of Style<\/cite> in the mail.  (Along with a Le&nbsp;Guin book&#8212;which I'm also very pleased about, but it's a used copy that isn't in as good condition as I was hoping for.)<\/p>\n<p>I haven't spent a lot of time with the new <cite>Chicago<\/cite> yet.  I'm fairly pleased with the new usage section, though the book no longer recommends the use of singular <span class=\"word-as-word\">they.<\/span>  The body typeface (Scala) is nicer and more readable than the previous edition's (which was Linotron Times Roman) (though Scala is not as heavy\/dark, so it has less contrast against the page background); the blue inline examples inserted into paragraphs in the usage section are a little distracting, but once I get used to them I may like them.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the book is still devoted to details of production and citation, which I'm largely uninterested in, but I imagine it continues to be useful to production people and to academics.  There's lots of new material about online stuff, including a section on citing online magazines; sadly, they don't recommend a way to set off URLs in text.  I continue to feel that URLs in text reduce readability if they're not set off somehow, and all sorts of problems arise when they're followed by punctuation, but <cite>Chicago<\/cite> says: \"Other punctuation marks [other than trailing slashes] used following a URL will readily be perceived as belonging to the surrounding text.\"  I'm awfully dubious about that, especially in works intended for a non-technical audience; I'll probably continue to set them off with parentheses even when they're not parenthetical.<\/p>\n<p>One of my few serious problems with the 14th edition was the index, which often seemed fairly arbitrary to me; we'll see whether the index in this new edition is better.<\/p>\n<p>Really, that's all I can say about the volume in general; it'll take a while of using it to see what I think about it.  But I'm pleased to have it anyway.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Method #89-Q of making Jed happy: ensure that he receives the new 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}