1.2.3 Language and Usage

Gender: Throughout the text, I use the masculine gender when referring to the players and their characters. The feminine gender is used when referring to the Game Moderator and non-player characters. I employ these conventions to avoid cumbersome language; in practice, anyone can take the role of a player or the GM.

Punctuation: I use the “logical method” of quotation mark punctuation common to the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries. Thus, periods and commas appear within quotation marks only when they are part of the text being quoted.

Abbreviations: I note abbreviations at the bottom of each page where they first appear and at the end of the text in the Glossary of Abbreviations.

Typefaces: The headers are rendered in Korataki, a modern-day version of a futuristic Asian font from the 1970s created by the Typodermic foundry. The body text is rendered in Carnova, a modern font from the Typotheticals foundry especially designed for clarity at smaller sizes.

Style: As to other matters of style, I rely on the The Chicago Manual of Style — 15th ed. (2003).

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Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks#Punctuation, www.myfonts.com, http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

[NOTE: Some items on this wiki page refer to the print version of the book.]

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