Rewrite EDITING: Cover dash and short quotes. Mention quote cleanup. Misc minor rewording,

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/EDITING b/EDITING
index 5c7daa3..3e27304 100644
--- a/EDITING
+++ b/EDITING
@@ -7,16 +7,19 @@ Unfortunately, Markdown and Mediawiki formats only cover visual markup.
 These are suggestions for pseudo-semantic Markdown/Mediawiki markup,
 suitable for post-processing into both web-based and print formats.
 
-  * Use emphasis + doublequote for foreign terms.
-  * Use doublequote + emphasis for titles.
-  * Use strong emphasis only for essential keywords, and very sparsely.
-  * Use blockquote only for citation (not as emphasis for other blocks).
-  * Use blockquote for citation block (not blockquote + other quotes).
-  * Use bibliography at each citation (preferrably at the end).
-  * Use direct link (not bibliography) for "see also" style refences.
-  * Use canonical URL in hyperlink (not wikilink or relative URL).
-  * Use square brackets for meta comments (not paranthesis).
-  * Use verbatim only for code and shell commands.
-  * Fix visual abuse of punctuation or indentation in quoted text.
+  * Use -- (dash dash) for sentence break or parenthetical statement.
+  * Use - (hyphen-minus) for ranges or minus (nothing else).
+  * Use doublequote (") for short quote (e.g. max. 3 lines or 50 words).
+  * Use singlequote (') for short quote within short quote.
+  * Use blockquote (alone) for long quote (nothing else).
+  * Use cite or --- (dash dash dash) after each short or long quote.
+  * Use hyperlink or footnote for non-citation related info.
+  * Use emphasis + doublequote for foreign term.
+  * Use doublequote + emphasis for title.
+  * Use strong emphasis for essential keyword (nothing else).
+  * Use canonical URL (not wikilink or relative URL) in hyperlink.
+  * Use square brackets (not paranthesis) for meta comment.
+  * Use verbatim for code or shell command (nothing else).
+  * Fix or remove visual markup in quoted text (e.g. punctuation abuse).
 
  -- Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>  Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:28:48 +0100