July 12, 2008

Style Sheet.

In most matters of style, the Press follows the Chicago Manual of Style... unless the author has used an alternative style that is reasonable and consistent.
The alternative style sheet, as provided by my copyeditor, which is an oddly accurate snapshot of what's inside my forthcoming book, though I hesitated for a minute about "Q-Bert" versus "QBert":

Adobe PageMaker
anti-abstinence
anti-communist

balikbayan (ital. at 1st appearance, not afterward)

CommLink

DJ Q-Bert

ethno-linguistic

family-reunification as adj. before noun
family-reunification preference as adj. before noun
Filipino
The Filipino Channel
Filipinoness
Financial District
first-preference as adj. before noun

hiphop
Hiphop Nation
hyperaccelerated

I-Hotel
inarticulable
insurmountability
intraethnic
intraracial
Invisibl Skratch Piklz

Jefferson High School District

maidless
maidlessness
Manileños
middle-classness
misrecognition
multilocality
multisited
museum-ized

national origin as adj. before noun
neo-functionalism
non-citizen
non-fulfillment
non-existent
non-participation
non-practice
non-profit
non-quantifiable
non-quota
non-resident

occupational-preference as adj. before noun
Orientalism
Other
Otherwise

pakikisama
PhilNews Network
Pilipino
Pinoy
Pinoys
politico-legal
postcoloniality
postcolonially

reggaeish
re-turn

Second Wave open as adj before noun
semi-autobiography
semi-conscious
semi-fictional
semi-mythical
semi-official
semi-permanent
semi-racist
semi-religious
Serramonte district
St. Francis district
subheadline
Sunset District

Taglish
Tenderloin district
Third Wave open as adj before noun
third- and sixth-preference as adj. before noun
third-preference as adj. before noun
Top of the Hill district
transnationality
transnationally
turntablist
turntablism

unpatriotism

Westlake district

Posted by the wily filipino at July 12, 2008 12:38 PM