CommonMark-based examples for turning plain punctuation into headings, emphasis, lists, links, quotations, and code.
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Language
The sorting choices behind a useful index, including spaces, punctuation, numerals, prefixes, subentries, and cross-references.
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Literature
A reading note on Saki’s compact study in storytelling, social discomfort, misdirection, and the pleasure of a perfectly timed ending.
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Reference
How the familiar seven symbols combine, where subtractive forms belong, and why historical examples do not always follow modern rules.
A bridge between artists’ vocabulary and technical color models, from hue and chroma to RGB, HSL, and hexadecimal notation.
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Timekeeping
A practical guide to signs, hours and minutes, conversions, and the important difference between a fixed offset and a time zone.
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Typography
Dimensions, proportions, and everyday uses of the ISO A series, with a comparison to North American Letter and Legal paper.
A field guide to dashes, quotes, primes, dots, slashes, and other marks that look similar but perform different jobs.