The Nitpicker's Guide to E2 Style and Formatting

• E2 HTML tags
• How to Format Poems and Simple HTML
• html symbol reference
  • E2 FAQ: Using Special HTML Characters
  • Π (Π) vs Π (Π)

The commentary

• html formatted hard links
• White space and paragraphs (Oops! no <p> or <br> tags)
  • don't indent html paragraphs
  • White space is not a tool of the Devil
  • Massive Blocks of Text Are A Bad Thing
  • <BR><BR> (improper use of when the <p> should have been used)
  • Thousand-word paragraphs give me a headache
  • Your dearth of paragraph breaks offends me, not your content. (a nodeshell, now gone)
• Use and abuse of the small tag
• single space after a period at the end of a sentence
• The evil of '-----'
• The _ as Underline
• Extraneous Exclamation Marks
• The over use of also
• Use proper English; don't say "u" when you mean "you"
• Capitalization
  • Capitalize, please
  • people who don't capitalize anything in their writeups
  • People who don't capitalize their I's
  • Capitalization in Nodes
  • Capitalize, please
  • Capitalization in Nodes revisited: A Heretic Sees the Light
• When to use <i> and when to use <em> or <cite>
  • Logical HTML style harassment
• Invalid HTML on Everything2
  • Invalid HTML using "ul" to indent
  • Invalid HTML using "h1" in "ol" or "ul" tags
  • Invalid HTML using "li" without "ol" or "ul" tags
• The &mdash; problem
• Learn how to format
• Work within the limitations of the medium
• Smartquotes and the apostrophe
  • Do you really want curly quotes that badly? (moved to Smartquotes)
  • the Everything jessicapierce bug revisited
  • Everything apostrophe bug 1.1
  • the never ending apostrophe bug
  • how not to use apostrophe's

Please /msg me with any additions, changes, or suggestions for nodes to be written. Thank you.