Directional Quotation Marks, Primes, & Unidirectional Quotation Marks
DISCUSSION OF TERMINOLOGY & PRACTICE This opening guidance on setting quotation marks comes from the Chicago Manual of Style 16, which uses four different terms for the preferred character pair at the outset. 6.112 Typographer’s or “smart” quotation marks Published works should use directional (or “smart”) quotation marks, sometimes called typographer’s or “curly” quotation marks. These marks, which are available […]
Adding/Amending Facebook Metadata in a 25 Issue Archive
DOCUMENTATION OF PRACTICE Blackbird: on online journal of literature and the arts, did not, until volume eleven in 2012, routinely add the necessary meta data to direct the image and content of a shared link in Facebook. (This corresponding with the rise of Facebook and the journal’s own use of it to promote readership and educational outreach.) […]