Floop style guide

Titles

Works

Works should be italicised. To style this, use two single quotation marks on either side of the text to be italicised:

Andy Warhol ''Outer and Inner Space'' (1965)

Andy Warhol Outer and Inner Space (1965)

Books, periodicals, journals

Like works, the titles of books, periodicals and journals should be italicised:

Norbert Wiener’s ''Cybernetics''

Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics

Articles, Essays, Seminars

These titles should appear between two single quotation marks, e.g.:


Headings
Chapter headings (machines)

All caps

Chapter subheadings

Punctuation
Double quotation marks, then single quotation marks e.g.:

"He said 'The sun will rise again', and then walked away dramatically".

Links
PT & Floop links

Certain symbols (such as &, ?, #, + and /) should not be used when making links between Floop and PT. Using these can run the risk of producing 404-page-not-found errors when Mediawiki rewrites URLS.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Troubleshooting

Dashes can be useful here, but there are three different types:

* Em dashes —
* En dashes –
* and hyphens -

We will only use en dashes and hyphens in titles.

e.g. 

    TECHNOLOGIES OF SELF–WILLIAM BURROUGHS

    CONTROL SOCIETIES – DELEUZE

    WRITING––CALVINO–SOFTWARE–CYBERNETICS


These can be used in different ways, but a consistency between the methods will make it easier for the reader to know what type of PT is being visited. Also, at some times hyphens are used for compound nouns and adjectives (for grammatical accuracy), such as "tone-curves" in the PT titled:


    FEELING TONE-CURVES


To establish a difference between different types of PTs and maintain linguistic clarity, I propose the following syntax;

For PTs that link a topic to a particular agent of the discourse

    TOPIC – AGENT

e.g. 

    TECHNOLOGIES OF SELF – WILLIAM BURROUGHS



Or for topics/agents/topics that link to several other topics and agents that sometimes form a group (I'm calling this a "compound", see below), use one en dash, with a space on either side ( – ):

    SUBJECT – TOPIC

e.g.

    WRITING – CALVINO-SOFTWARE-CYBERNETICS


For compounds, use hyphens to separate parts:

    SUBJECT-SUBJECT-SUBJECT

    TOPIC-TOPIC-TOPIC

    AGENT-AGENT-AGENT


or any combination, separated only by hyphens:

    SUBJECT-TOPIC-AGENT

    e.g. 

    TECHNOLOGIES OF SELF – WILLIAM BURROUGHS

    CONTROL SOCIETIES – DELEUZE

    WRITING – CALVINO-SOFTWARE-CYBERNETICS