Style Bites » T http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites A style guide for the editors of Serious Eats Wed, 19 May 2010 14:50:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 tags http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2008/07/02/tags/ http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2008/07/02/tags/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:53:53 +0000 Adam http://www.hatchback.net/stylebites/?p=36 Use plurals. And make sure to capitalize proper nouns. Ex.: wedding cakes, not wedding cake; Japan, not japan.

]]> http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2008/07/02/tags/feed/ 0 tags, tagging http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2007/09/07/tags-tagging/ http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2007/09/07/tags-tagging/#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:05:07 +0000 Adam http://www.hatchback.net/stylebites/?p=18 In Movable Type, tags are separated by commas. You can therefore—and should—use multiple words separated by spaces: peanut butter, not peanutbutter

Use the plural form: hot dogs, not hot dog; books, not book

Capitalize proper nouns: California, Jeffrey Steingarten, Taillevent — not california, jeffrey steingarten, or taillevent

Use the simplest form of the tag: cookbooks — not fish cookbooks

Don’t overtag. As of publication of this post, there are more than 4,300 tags in the Serious Eats MT system. To optimize the system, I need your help in keeping tags lean and logical.

]]> http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2007/09/07/tags-tagging/feed/ 0 titles (job descriptions) http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2008/07/02/titles-job-descriptions/ http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2008/07/02/titles-job-descriptions/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:24:11 +0000 Adam http://www.hatchback.net/stylebites/?p=56 DO NOT UPPERCASE job titles.
No: … Joe Blow, the General Manager, Sommelier, and Chief Mixologist at Nacional 27 …
Yes: … Joe Blow, the general manager, sommelier, and chief mixologist at Nacional 27 …

No: … said Chef Mario Batali, who wears orange Crocs….
Yes: … said chef Mario Batali, who wears orange Crocs….

Exceptions: Elected and royal titles are uppercase. Ex.: Mayor Gavin Newsom; President George W. Bush; Prince Charles; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

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