Microtypography
Characters, spaces, punctuation, quotation marks, dashes, and other local text details.
Definitions, examples, judgment, and implementation.
Double Spaces
A double space is a run of two or more ordinary word spaces where contemporary typeset prose expects one.
DOUBLE_SPACERepeated Words
A repeated-word finding identifies adjacent identical words that may be an accidental duplication.
REPEATED_WORDStraight vs Typographic Quotes
Straight ASCII quote marks are generic keyboard characters; typographic quotation marks and apostrophes have opening, closing, and locale-dependent forms.
STRAIGHT_QUOTESMART_QUOTEQuotation Marks by Language
Quotation mark shape, direction, nesting, spacing, and punctuation placement depend on language, region, and editorial style.
SMART_QUOTESTRAIGHT_QUOTEPunctuation Spacing
Punctuation spacing controls whether a space is required, forbidden, or non-breaking before and after a punctuation mark.
PUNC_SPACE_BEFOREPUNC_SPACE_AFTERREPEATED_PUNCTHyphen, En Dash & Em Dash
Hyphens join or divide words; en and em dashes express ranges, relationships, interruptions, or parenthetical structure according to editorial style.
DASH_USAGEEllipsis
An ellipsis represents omitted or trailing content; its character form and surrounding spaces must follow the publication’s language and style.
ELLIPSIS